A satirical novel of a crowded future England, where the population is out of control and the state discourages family life and promotes sterility. Tristram Foxe, a schoolteacher, and his wife Beatrice-Joanna live through shifting social phases that Burgess draws from ideas about human nature, from optimism to cynicism. The book mixes comedy, grim invention and argument, and it plays with religious and political ideas. It is a clever companion to his other warnings about the dangers of social planning.
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It's sapiens to be homo.