Super-Cannes

ISBN-13: 9780006551607 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 416 str.

J. G. Ballard

Opis

Super-Cannes follows where our executive super-capitalist dreams utopia must lead and shows us how we might yet escape that dark and violent cul-de-sac. Ballard is the author of Empire of the Sun, Crash and his most recent bestseller, Cocaine Nights

Recenzje

'Sublime...An elegant, elaborate trap of a novel, which reads as a companion piece to "Cocaine Nights" but takes ideas from that novel and runs further. The first essential novel of the 21st century' Independent

'Possibly his greatest book. "Super-Cannes" is both a novel of ideas and a compelling thriller that will keep you turning the pages to the shocking denouement. Only Ballard could have produced it' Sunday Express

'In this tautly paced thriller he brilliantly details how man's darker side derails a vast experiment in living, and shows the dangers of a near-future in which going mad is the only way of staying sane' Daily Mail

'Vintage Ballard, a gripping blend of stylised thriller and fantastic imaginings' Guardian

O autorze

J. G. Ballard was born in 1930 in Shanghai, where his father was a businessman. After internment in a civilian prison camp, he and his family returned to England in 1946. He published his first novel, The Drowned World, in 1961. His 1984 bestseller Empire of the Sun won the Guardian Fiction Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. His memoir Miracles of Life was published in 2008. J. G. Ballard died in 2009.