A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess [TRADE PAPERBACK] 1987 • W.W. Norton & Co. humor "from the ruthless pirate Kennit

"from the ruthless pirate Kennit

and needed space to step back and hit the reset button

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With this act of violence--which is loosely based on the notorious 1955 killing of Emmett Till--James Baldwin launches an unsparing and at times agonizing probe of the wounds of race

this chaste but stirringly passionate novel affirms the conquering power of both love and courtesy

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess [TRADE PAPERBACK] 1987 • W.W. Norton & Co. humor "from the ruthless pirate KennitA Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess TRADE PAPERBACK RE ISSUE [1987] W. W. NORTON & CO. Vintage trade paperback. Clean, tight, and like new. In Burgess's infamous nightmare vision of youth culture in revolt, 15 year old Alex, a charismatic, psychopathic delinquent whose pleasures are classical music (especially Beethoven), rape, and so called 'ultra violence', leads a small gang of thugs (Pete, Georgie, and Dim), whom he calls his droogs (from the