The Drowned World - Softcover
Sometime in the near future, in a world overgrown by jungle and threatened by steadily rising temperatures and seas, a diminished humankind stuggles to hold its own against proliferating plant and reptile life
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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.
Martin Amis is one of Britain's most prolific post-war writers and a professor of creative writing at the University of Manchester. His stories and essays explore the absurdity of the postmodern condition.
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Martin Amis is one of Britain's most prolific post-war writers and a professor of creative writing at the University of Manchester. His stories and essays explore the absurdity of the postmodern condition.
“This tale of strange and terrible adventure in a world of steaming jungles has an oppressive power reminiscent of Conrad.”
- Kingsley Amis
“A bold, hypnotic novel, by an author with a genius for the perverse.”
- Guardian
“Rich and strange...Ballard's potent symbols of beauty and dismay inundate the reader's mind.”
- Brian Aldiss
- Kingsley Amis
“A bold, hypnotic novel, by an author with a genius for the perverse.”
- Guardian
“Rich and strange...Ballard's potent symbols of beauty and dismay inundate the reader's mind.”
- Brian Aldiss
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- PublisherCarroll & Graf Publishers
- Publication date1987
- ISBN 10 0881843245
- ISBN 13 9780881843248
- BindingMass Market Paperback
- Number of pages176
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