A Clockwork Orange Marshall Karp the rare Black Pencil Award

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A Clockwork Orange Marshall Karp the rare Black Pencil AwardIn Burgess's infamous nightmare vision of youth culture in revolt, 15 year old Alex, a charismatic, psychopathic delinquent whose pleasures are classical music (especially Beethoven), rape, and so called 'ultra violence', leads a small gang of thugs (Pete, Georgie, and Dim), whom he calls his droogs (from the Russian , "friend", "buddy") on a diabolical orgy of robbery, rape, torture and murder. The book tells the horrific crime spree of his gang,