A tale of good and evil, set in a dystopian future and featuring the hedonist, Alex, and his friends who rule the night, while the authorities feign indifference in pursuit of maintaining social order.
In the Slav-oriented state of the future, the Lower Orders are in ascendence and happy hooligans roam the London streets, bashing senior citizens in the eyes with bicycle chains.
A fable about good and evil that presents a nightmare vision of the future. Alex is a vicious fifteen-year-old droog, a criminal who talks in a brutal invented slang. When the state undertakes to reform Alex, the novel asks, "at what cost?".
In the Slav-oriented state of the future, the Lower Orders are in ascendence and happy hooligans roam the London streets, bashing senior citizens in the eyes with bicycle chains.
A violent teen named Alex is "rehabilitated" by the government in this satirical view of the future of the industrialized world; also includes a glossary of the novel's Russian-based "nadsat" language.
