The Wanting Seed — Anthony Burgess

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Paperback editions:

  • Trade Paperback
  • Dec-1996
  • W.W. Norton & Company
  • ISBN: 0393315088
  • ISBN13: 9780393315080

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  • Paperback
  • May-2023
  • Penguin (UK)
  • ISBN: 0241997372
  • ISBN13: 9780241997376

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Hardcover editions:

  • Hardcover
  • Apr-1976
  • W.W. Norton & Company
  • ISBN: 0393008088
  • ISBN13: 9780393008081

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eBook editions:

  • eBook (Kindle)
  • Dec-1996
  • W. W. Norton & Company

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Description
Set in the near future, The Wanting Seed is a Malthusian comedy about the strange world overpopulation will produce.

Tristram Foxe and his wife, Beatrice-Joanna, live in their skyscraper world where official family limitation glorifies homosexuality. Eventually, their world is transformed into a chaos of cannibalistic dining-clubs, fantastic fertility rituals, and wars without anger. It is a novel both extravagantly funny and grimly serious.
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