Anthony Burgess 6,792 ratings
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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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FictionScience FictionDystopiaClassicsBritish LiteratureLiteratureNovelsSpeculative FictionSatire20th Century
288 Pages