# The Wanting Seed

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- Book: [The Wanting Seed](https://www.bookquiver.com/anthony-burgess/the-wanting-seed) ([The Wanting Seed.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/anthony-burgess/the-wanting-seed.md))
- Authors: [Anthony Burgess](https://www.bookquiver.com/anthony-burgess)
- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-02-4199-737-6
- Pages: 288
- Published: 2023-05-18
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Tristram Foxe and his wife, Beatrice-Joanna, live in their skyscraper world where official family limitation glorifies homosexuality. Eventually, their world is transformed into a chaos of cannibalistic dining-clubs, fantastic fertility rituals, and wars without anger.