When Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange was published in the United States, the
book's portrayal of the seductions of crime and the nightmare of state-sanctioned
brainwashing fit well with the social and political mood of the country in the 1960s. In 1971,
Stanley Kubrick's film version of the book was popularly and critically acclaimed as a
philosophical masterpiece. Yet, both the film and the version of Burgess's novel that was
published in the United States left out one rather important part of the life story of Alex, the …