The A Clockwork Orange origin story may be a total fabrication

Almost everything you've read about how Anthony Burgess came to write A Clockwork Orange may be invented — by Burgess himself, argues The Memory Hole. As the standard account has it, in 1959 a doctor gave the Burgess a year to live, so he churned out novels to leave his wife some money. — Read the rest

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