A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess [1987 PAPERBACK]

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

VINTAGE PAPERBACK [1987] BALLANTINE BOOKS

Vintage mass market paperback in excellent condition.   Great reading copy with mild edge wear to cover and some very subtle tanning to pages. 

In Anthony Burgess's nightmare vision of the future, where criminals take over after dark, the story is told by the central character, Alex, who talks in a brutal invented slang that brilliantly renders his and his friends' social pathology. A Clockwork Orange is a frightening fable about good and evil, and the meaning of human freedom. When the state undertakes to reform Alex—to "redeem" him—the novel asks, "At what cost?"   This edition includes the controversial last chapter.