A Clockwork Orange

Synopsis

One of esquire's 50 best sci-fi books of all time “a brilliant novel. [a] savage satire on the distortions of the single and collective minds. ”―new york timesin anthony burgess’s influential nightmare vision of the future, where the criminals take over after dark, the story is told by the central character, alex, a teen who talks in a fantastically inventive slang that evocatively renders his and his friends’ intense reaction against their society. Dazzling and transgressive, a clockwork orange is a frightening fable about good and evil and the meaning of human freedom.