A CLOCKWORK ORANGE (184 pp.)Anthony BurgessNorton ($3.95).
In A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess has written what looks like a nasty little shocker but is really that rare thing in English lettersa philosophical novel. The point may be overlooked because the hero, a teen-age monster, tells all about everything in nadsat, a weird argot that seems to be all his own. Nadsat is neither gibberish nor a Joycean exercise. It serves to put Alex where he belongshalf in and half out of the human race.
While Pee & Em Are Away. It is a nightmare...
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