Search results for 'J.G. Ballard'
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JG Ballard
The definitive cult, post-modern novel a shocking blend of violence, transgression and eroticism.
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JG Ballard
From the author of the Sunday Times bestseller Cocaine Nights comes an acclaimed backlist title -- the unnerving tale of life in a modern tower block running out of control -- now reissued in new cover style. Within the concealing walls of an elegant forty-storey tower block, the affluent tenants are hell-bent on an orgy of destruction. Cocktail parties degenerate into marauding attacks on 'enemy' floors and the once-luxurious amenities become an arena for technological mayhem!In this classic visionary tale, human society slips into violent reverse as the inhabitants of the high-rise, driven by primal urges, recreate a world ruled by the laws of the jungle.
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J.G. Ballard
The world is threatened by dramatic climate change in this highly acclaimed and influential novel, one of the most important early works by the bestselling author of 'Cocaine Nights' and 'Super-Cannes'.
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J.G. Ballard
From the author of the Sunday Times bestseller Cocaine Nights comes an acclaimed backlist title -- the extraordinary vision of an African forest that turns into crystal -- now reissued in new cover style.
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Iain Sinclair
Burrowing under the perimeter fence of the grandest of Grand Projects - the giant myth that is 2012's London Olympics - "Ghost Milk" is a road map to a possible future as well as Iain Sinclair's most powerful statement yet on the throwaway impermanence of the present.
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JG Ballard
First published in 1970 and widely regarded as a prophetic masterpiece, this is a groundbreaking experimental novel by the acclaimed author of 'Crash' and 'Super-Cannes', who has supplied explanatory notes for this new edition.
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Cultural Connections: Films
While David Cronenburg's cinematic treatment of the book may be much better known, the BBC's earlier short film 'informed' by JG Ballard’s Atrocity Exhibition is well worth investigating.
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Rana Dasgupta
Thirteen passengers are stranded at an airport. Tokyo, their destination, is covered in snow and all flights are cancelled. To pass the night they form a huddle by the silent baggage carousels and tell each other stories...
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J.G. Ballard
First volume in a two volume collection of the acclaimed short stories by the author of Empire of the Sun, Crash, Cocaine Nights and Super-Cannes regarded by many as Britain's No 1 living fiction writer.
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John Gray
John Gray draws on an extraordinary array of memoirs, poems, fiction and philosophy to make us re-imagine our place in the world. Writers as varied as Ballard, Borges, Freud and Conrad are mesmerised by forms of human extremity - experiences on the outer edge of the possible, or which tip into fantasy and myth. What happens to us when we starve, when we fight, when we are imprisoned? And how do our imaginations leap into worlds way beyond our real experience?
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