It is set in a near future English society featuring a subculture of extreme youth violence. Archived from the original on 16 January The gang abandons Alex on the front step to be arrested by the police; while in custody, he learns that the woman has died from her injuries. International Anthony Burgess Foundation. Alex's friends "droogs" in the novel's Anglo-Russian slang' Nadsat ' are Dim, a slow-witted bruiser who is the gang's muscle; Georgie, an ambitious second-in-command; and Pete, who mostly plays along as the droogs indulge their taste for ultra-violence. A Clockwork Orange was chosen by Time magazine as one of the best English-language books from to Cutterhowever, means "money", because "cutter" rhymes with "bread-and-butter"; this is rhyming slangwhich is intended to be impenetrable to outsiders especially eavesdropping policemen.
