A Clockwork Orange and Honey for the Bears
By: by Anthony Burgess.
Edition: First Modern Library Edition
Publisher: Modern Library
Published: 1968-09
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 436
Copyright date: 1963
Other titles: Honey for the bears.
Description: Clockwork orange: Fifteen-year-old Alex doesn't just like ultra-violence - he also enjoys rape, drugs and Beethoven's Ninth. He and his gang rampage through a dystopian future, hunting for terrible thrills. But when Alex finds himself at the mercy of the state and subject to the ministrations of Dr. Brodsky, the government psychologist, he discovers that fun is no longer the order of the day. Honey for the bears: A sharply written satire which sends an unassuming antiques dealer, Paul Hussey, to Russia to do one final deal on the black market as a favor for a dead friend's wife. Even on the ship's voyage across, the Russian sensibility begins to pervade: lots of secrets and lots of vodka. When his American wife is stricken by a painful rash and he is interrogated at his hotel by Soviet agents who know that he is trying to sell stylish synthetic dresses to the masses starved for fashion, his precarious inner balance is thrown off for good. More drink follows, discoveries of his wife's illicit affair with another woman, and his own submerged sexual feelings come breaking through the surface, bubbling up in Russian champagne and caviar.
Notes: "First Modern Library edition."