sort by Note: these are all the books on Goodreads for this author.
Urn:lcp:atrocityexhibiti00jgba:epub:289392d8-549c-48c3-bc0d-35586eee7caa Extramarc Notre Dame Catalog Foldoutcount 0 Identifier atrocityexhibiti00jgba Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t1gj0g28g Isbn 0007116861ĩ780007116867 Ocr tesseract 4.1.1 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_module_version 0.0.5 Ocr_parameters -l eng Openlibrary OL9216198M Openlibrary_edition "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 23:06:30 Boxid IA140009 Boxid_2 CH123601 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City London Donorīostonpubliclibrary Edition New ed. His memoir Miracles of Life was published in 2008. His 1984 best seller Empire of the Sun won the Guardian Fiction Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. He published his first novel, The Drowned World, in 1961. After internment in a civilian prison camp, he and his family returned to England in 1946. Ballard was born in 1930 in Shanghai, where his father was a businessman.
Finally, through the black, perverse magic of violence he transcends his psychic turmoil to find the key to a bizarre new sexuality. Seeking his sanity, he casts himself in a number of roles: H-bomber pilot, presidential assassin, crash victim, psychopath. Detectives Art Walkley, left, and Karoline Keith and Sgt.
Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe, dead astronauts and car-crash victims as he traverses the screaming wastes of nervous breakdown. The crime-scene investigators are the ones who document, and remember, the unimaginable. The central character’s dreams are haunted by images of John F. The irrational, all-pervading violence of the modern world is the subject of this extraordinary tour de force. This edition features explanatory notes from the author. Ballard, the acclaimed author of Crash and Super-Cannes. A prophetic and experimental masterpiece by J.
0 kommentar(er)
