The 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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- PublisherOrion Publishing Co
- Publication date1964
- ISBN 10 0575035145
- ISBN 13 9780575035140
- BindingHardcover
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The Terminal Beach
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The Terminal Beach by J.D. Ballard (A File Copy)
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(1985)
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Mark Foreman(Jacket Art) (illustrator). Reprint Edition. The Terminal Beach by J.D. Ballard (A File Copy) A sharp, tight, copy with a slightly bumped bottom-corner of the front-cover. A bright dust jacket. Not price-clipped. English Novelist known for the book, which major motion picture filmed by Steven Spielberg , "Empire of the Sun." Stated, "This edition 1985." Publisher's Archive File Copy. BOOK. Seller Inventory # HCX13857-1
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