A high-security luxury housing estate in the Thames Valley is the setting for a disturbing outbreak of violence in this compelling reissued novella from the acclaimed author of Cocaine Nights and Super-Cannes.A high-security luxury housing estate in the Thames Valley is the setting for a disturbing outbreak of violence in this compelling reissued novella from the acclaimed author of Cocaine Nights and Super-Cannes.Pangbourne Village housing estate is exclusive, expensive and protected from the outside world by the very latest in security systems. It should be the perfect place to bring up a child. So why, in the space of ten minutes early one morning, were the thirty-two adult residents brutally murdered, and all thirteen children abducted? No kidnapper has ever come forward, and the police are mystified. It is only when psychiatrist Richard Greville is called in that the truth behind the massacre gradually becomes clear.
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J.G. Ballard was born in 1930 in Shanghai. After internment in a civilian prison camp, he and his family returned to England in 1946. He published his first novel, The Drowned World, in 1961. His 1984 bestseller '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.
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Book Description Condition: Muy bueno. A high-security luxury housing estate in the Thames Valley sees a disturbing outbreak of violence in this compelling novella, newly reissued with an introduction from Adam Phillips.Pangbourne Village is exclusive, expensive and protected from the outside world by the very latest in security systems. A seeming idyll of family life; the perfect place to bring up a child. So why, in the space of ten minutes early one morning, were the thirty-two adult residents brutally murdered, and all thirteen children abducted? After months of fruitless investigation ? and no word of the children or a ransom ? the police are mystified. It is only when psychiatrist Richard Greville is called in that the truth behind the massacre gradually becomes clear.This edition is part of a new commemorative series of Ballard?s works, featuring introductions from a number of his admirers (including Ali Smith, Iain Sinclair, Martin Amis and Ned Beauman) and brand-new cover designs from the artist Stanley Donwood. EAN: 9780006548195 Tipo: Libros Categoría: Literatura y ficción| Ficción por género Título: Running WildAutor: J. G. Ballard| Adam Phillips Editorial: Fourth Estate (25 septiembre 2014) Idioma: EN Páginas: 112 Formato: Tapa blanda Peso: 90 Año de publicación: 2014. Seller Inventory # Happ-2023-06-09-b3e0e0cf