From the acclaimed author of the dystopian classic A Clockwork Orange The Wanting Seed is an
inventive thought-provoking and darkly absurd novel set in a work rampant with overpopulation.
The Wanting Seed is part of our Penguin Essentials series which spotlights the very best of our
modern classics. As governments struggle to maintain order in the face of overpopulation and
food shortages and homosexuality is glorified in an attempt to further limit family sizes
Tristram Foxe and his wife Beatrice-Joanna find themselves facing dire choices. Their world
transforms into a chaos of cannibalistic dining-clubs fantastic fertility rituals and wars
without anger.
