The Drought: A Novel - Softcover
An apocalyptic dystopia like no other, one whose "originality and power [of] vision can be felt" (Times Literary Supplement).
Weird and mesmerizingly grotesque, The Drought tells the chilling story of the world on the brink of extinction, where a global drought, brought on by industrial waste, has left mankind in a life-or-death search for water. Violence erupts and insanity reigns as the human race struggles for survival in a worldwide desert of despair."synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
About the Author:
J.G. Ballard was born in Shanghai in 1930 and lived in England from 1946 until his death in London in 2009. He is the author of nineteen novels, including Empire of the Sun, The Drought, and Crash, with many of them made into major films.
Review:
`The terrifying thing about Ballard is his logic; is this science fiction or history written ahead of its time?' Len Deighton`More intelligent and more strange than almost any other novel' Brian Aldiss`At a time when we live with constant warnings of a world destroyed by global warming, it is easy to forget that writers such as Ballard were exploring the fear of global blight nearly forty years ago' The Times`It is weird; it is grotesque; it is magnificently Gothic' Sunday Times`A strange and wonderful book' Guardian
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- PublisherW. W. Norton & Company
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 0393340457
- ISBN 13 9780393340457
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages192
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