by Anthony Burgess - £7.99 Penguin Books Ltd (2011)
paperback
ISBN 13: 9780241951446 | ISBN 10: 0241951445
'What we were after was lashings of ultraviolence'
In this nightmare vision of youth in revolt, fifteen-year-old Alex and his friends set out on a diabolical orgy of robbery, rape, torture and murder. Alex is jailed for his teenage delinquency and the State tries to reform him - but at what cost?
Social prophecy? Black comedy? Study of freewill? A Clockwork Orange is all of these. It is also a dazzling experiment in language, as Burgess creates a new language - 'nadsat', the teenage slang of a not-too-distant future.
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