J. G. Ballard

Rushing to Paradise (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Veteran campaigner Dr Barbara Rafferty's obsessive crusade to save the albatross on the Pacific atoll of Saint-Esprit suddenly gains international support when millions of TV viewers witness the shooting of her young acolyte Neil Dempsey on a foolhardy rescue mission. From the outpouring of support Dr Barbara begins to turn the deserted island into a sanctuary - a remote paradise for eco-enthusiasts, idealists and a growing number of the world's endangered species.

But as this sinister story unfolds it becomes clear that all is not as it seems in the ecological idyll, indeed, some species are much more endangered than others.

Brilliantly unsettling in classic 'Ballardian' style, this is a novel in which all expectations are upset and all roles reversed.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Juli 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780007384891
• Artikelnr.: 38070203

Autorenporträt

J.G. Ballard was born in 1930 in Shanghai. After internment in a civilian prison camp, his family returned to England in 1946. His 1984 bestseller Empire of the Sun won the Guardian Fiction Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. His controversial novel Crash was made into a film by David Cronenberg. His autobiography Miracles of Life was published in 2008, and a collection of interviews with the author, Extreme Metaphors, will be published in 2012. J.G. Ballard passed away in 2009.

Rezensionen

'Ballard is a magician of the contemporary scene and a literary saboteur. "Rushing to Paradise" is a Wellsian drama of extremity and isolation ... No one else writes with such enchanted clarity or strange power' Guardian

'Pure Ballard. I read it with rapt fascination ... Wonderful' William Boyd

'"Robinson Crusoe" in reverse. Teasing and sardonic ... Ballard at his best' Independent on Sunday