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Book SynopsisA prophetic and experimental masterpiece by J. G. Ballard, the acclaimed author of Crash' and Super-Cannes', featuring an introduction by Hari Kunzru.The human organism is an atrocity exhibition at which he is an unwilling spectator As the protagonist spirals into the depths of a nervous breakdown, his dreams are haunted by images of John F. Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe, astronauts and car-crash victims. A kaleidoscopic scrapbook of mass culture, his mind fixates on the consumerism of the modern world a hallucinatory obsession with celebrity, media, sex and violence. With the media infiltrating every corner of our psyche, have the lines blurred between fiction and reality?
Trade Review‘The zenith of the experimental novel in English’ Will Self
‘Brilliant and unnerving … Ballard is a writer with talent to burn’ The Times
‘These stories – “condensed novels”, Ballard has called them – are a high-water mark in English experimental fiction’ New York Times
‘A powerful book … Phrase and image are constantly disturbing and stimulating’ Sunday Telegraph
‘The terrifying thing about Ballard is his logic; is this science fiction or history written ahead of its time?’ Len Deighton
