The Unlimited Dream Company - Softcover

Ballard, J G

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0586089950 ISBN 13: 9780586089958

Publisher: HUNTER PUBLISHING+INC, 1990

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. BALLARDwas born in 1930 in Shanghai. After internment in a civilian prison camp, his family returned to England in 1946. His 1984 bestsellerEmpire of the Sunwon the Guardian Fiction Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. His controversial novelCrashwas made into a film by David Cronenberg. His autobiographyMiracles of Lifewas 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: HUNTER PUBLISHING+INC
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0586089950
• ISBN 13: 9780586089958
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224