Terminal Beach - Hardcover
From the author of CRASH and EMPIRE OF THE SUN, a reissued collection of short stories last published in 1985, which examine the paradox that exists between humanity's creative abilities and destructive impulses. Includes THE TERMINAL BEACH, about an island used for atomic bomb tests and subsequently deserted, and THE GIOCONDA OF THE TWILIGHT NOON.
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SALES POINTS Reissued in a new cover style alongside The Voices of Time J G Ballard is widely recognised as one of the finest writers of the 20th century His novel Empire of the Sun won the Guardian Fiction Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. It was later filmed by Steven Spielberg. 'Ballard's ferocious intelligence, his wit, his cantankerousness, and in particular his extraordinary rendering of the perverse pleasures of today's paranoia, make him one of the grand magicians of modern fiction' Brian Aldiss 'It is utterly appropriate to number Ballard among the true contemporary radicals of the imagination ... His best work is simply a new way of looking at the world' New Musical Express
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- PublisherLittlehampton Book Services Ltd
- Publication date1974
- ISBN 10 0575018607
- ISBN 13 9780575018600
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages224
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The Terminal Beach
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 2nd Edition. Reissue (1974). 221pp. Ex-library with usual markings. Good book with slight forward lean, lower corners bumped, cracked at rear hinge, ffep removed, library stamps to title page, first and last text pages and rear pastedown, in Good+ jacket, gently edgeworn but bright with small stain to rear cover, now preserved in mylar jacket protector. Seller Inventory # 022532
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Book Description Condition: Very Good. Second edition. Hardback. 1974 reissue. Octavo. 221pp. Original dark red boards with gilt spine titles. Pastedown slightly torn around lower gutter area, some foxing to fore-edge, library label to pastedown and small stamp to title page, otherwise very good in a slightly used, very good dust jacket with slight tear at top corner. Seller Inventory # C216885
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The Terminal Beach by J. G. Ballard (Gollancz Edition) File Copy
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Reprint Edition. The Terminal Beach by J. G. Ballard (Gollancz Edition) File Copy A tight bright unread copy with sharp corners. A small stain to title page and page opposite. A sharp bright dust jacket. Publisher's Archive Copy. Second UK printing. "Reissued 1974. First published 1964." The Author's scarcest book. The Gollancz edition differs in Contents from the U.S first edition. BOOK. Seller Inventory # HCX9704-1
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Book Description Hardcover. Short story collection, first published in hardcover by Victor Gollancz in 1964, this is the Gollancz 2nd printing from 1974. BRIEFLY SIGNEd AND INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR/''to Edward, best Jim Ballard''. No idea who Edward was, but Ballard rarely signed using his first name, almost always, even when to good friends and colleagues, it was just signed ''J. G. Ballard''. Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new). Seller Inventory # 07665
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