The Unlimited Dream Company - Hardcover

J. G. Ballard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0030524318 ISBN 13: 9780030524318

Publisher: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1979

Synopsis

From the author of the Sunday Times bestseller 'Cocaine Nights' comes an acclaimed backlist title -- in which suburban London is transformed into an exotic dreamworld -- now reissued in new cover style. When a light aircraft crashes into the Thames at Shepperton, the young pilot who struggles to the surface minutes later seems to have come back from the dead. Within hours everything in the dormitory suburb is strangely transformed. Vultures invade the rooftops, luxuriant tropical vegetation overruns the quiet avenues, and the local inhabitants are propelled by the young man's urgent visions through ecstatic sexual celebrations towards an apocalyptic climax.

About this title

About the Author:

J. G. Ballard was born in 1930 in Shanghai. After internment in a civilian prison camp, his family returned to England in 1946. His 1984 bestseller `Empire of the Sun' won the Guardian Fiction Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. His controversial novel `Crash' was made into a film by David Cronenberg. His autobiography `Miracles of Life' was published in 2008, and a collection of interviews with the author, `Extreme Metaphors', was published in 2012. J. G. Ballard passed away in 2009.

Review:

`Blindingly original ... Moving, thrilling, exquisitely written' Anthony Burgess`A remarkable piece of invention, a flight from the world of the familiar and the real into the exotic universe of dream and desire ... Dense and erotic and magical, a pleasure to read' Malcolm Bradbury, New York Times Book Review`Extraordinary ... There is no doubt of the intensity and originality of the imagination ... Far beyond the scope of most novelists' Spectator`A remarkable fantasist ... Ballard's eloquence is as lush as the flowering vines he hangs from his multi-storey garages' Observer`The terrifying thing about Ballard is his logic; is this science fiction or history written ahead of its time?' Len Deighton

About this edition

• Publisher: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston
• Publication date: 1979
• ISBN 10: 0030524318
• ISBN 13: 9780030524318
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 238