A Clockwork Orange

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A Clockwork Orange

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ISBN: 9780241951446
author: Anthony Burgess
publishing house: Penguin
publication date: 2011 -4
binding: Mass Market Paperback
price: GBP 7.99
number of pages: 144

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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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