A Horrorshow Find: 'Clockwork Orange' Follow-up Surfaces After Decades Unseen
Gather round, my droogs. It's time for a story.
Not long after the 1971 release of the film adaptation of A Clockwork Orange, the novel's author, Anthony Burgess, received an offer from a publisher: Write a short follow-up to the novel, one that uses the word "Clockwork" in the title and brims with artwork, and we will make you a rich man.
So, according to Burgess scholar Andrew Biswell, the novelist got to work on a brief piece, which soon became a big piece, which eventually ballooned to 200 pages., the work was to be a philosophical meditation on the very nature of modern life — but alas, it never was. The manuscript was never published, and despite rumors of the project, it was never found either.
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