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Author | : J. G. Ballard |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2012-07-23 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0871403315 |
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A new generation discovers "the most original English writer of the last century." —China Miéville, The Nation Appearing in hardcover in America for the first time, this neglected Ballardian masterpiece promises to be a touchstone for environmentalists the world over. First published in 1962, J.G. Ballard’s mesmerizing and ferociously imaginative novel not only gained him widespread critical acclaim but also established his reputation as one of the finest writers of a generation. The Drowned World imagines a terrifying world in which global warming has melted the ice caps and primordial jungles have overrun a tropical London. Set during the year 2145, this novel follows biologist Dr. Robert Kearns and his team of scientists as they confront a cityscape in which nature is on the rampage and giant lizards, dragonflies, and insects fiercely compete for domination. Both an unmatched biological mystery and a brilliant retelling of Heart of Darkness—complete with a mad white hunter and his hordes of native soldiers—this “powerful and beautifully clear” (Brian Aldiss) work becomes a thrilling adventure with “an oppressive power reminiscent of Conrad” (Kingsley Amis).
Author | : J. G. Ballard |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2012-07-23 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0871404060 |
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From one of the most powerful and original talents in science fiction comes the story of a new world--a strange world where solar radiation fluctuations have melted the polar ice caps, flooding the land and raising the temperature of the atmosphere.
Author | : J. G. Ballard |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780871403629 |
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This fast-paced narrative by the author of 'Crash' and 'Empire of the Sun' is a stunning evocation of a flooded, tropical London of the near future and a foray into the workings of the unconscious mind.
Author | : J. G. Ballard |
Publisher | : Music Sales Corporation |
Total Pages | : 158 |
Release | : 1981-04-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780825695711 |
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Author | : Jeffrey Cohen |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 379 |
Release | : 2021-09-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1316510689 |
Download The Cambridge Companion to Environmental Humanities Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Offers a comprehensive introduction to the environmental humanities. It addresses the 21st century recognition of an environmental crisis.
Author | : J. G. Ballard |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2013-03-19 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1476737533 |
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The classic, award-winning novel, made famous by Steven Spielberg's film, tells of a young boy's struggle to survive World War II in China. Jim is separated from his parents in a world at war. To survive, he must find a strength greater than all the events that surround him. Shanghai, 1941 -- a city aflame from the fateful torch of Pearl Harbor. In streets full of chaos and corpses, a young British boy searches in vain for his parents. Imprisoned in a Japanese concentration camp, he is witness to the fierce white flash of Nagasaki, as the bomb bellows the end of the war...and the dawn of a blighted world. Ballard's enduring novel of war and deprivation, internment camps and death marches, and starvation and survival is an honest coming-of-age tale set in a world thrown utterly out of joint.
Author | : J. G. Ballard |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2011-07-18 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0393081990 |
Download Millennium People: A Novel Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"The most cosmically elegiac writer in literature . . . no one reading Ballard could doubt the tidal gravity of his intellect." —Jonathan Lethem, New York Times Book Review Violent rebellion comes to London’s middle classes in this “fascinating” (San Francisco Chronicle) novel from the same author of Crash and Empire of the Sun. Never more timely, Millennium People “seeks to illuminate our hearts of darkness while undermining our assumptions about what literature is meant to do” (Los Angeles Times).
Author | : J. G. Ballard |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 175 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Fiction in English, 1945- - Texts |
ISBN | : 9780460022576 |
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From one of the most powerful and original talents in science fiction comes the story of a new world--a strange world where solar radiation fluctuations have melted the polar ice caps, flooding the land and raising the temperature of the atmosphere.
Author | : J. G. Ballard |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 1215 |
Release | : 2010-11-08 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0393076873 |
Download The Complete Stories of J. G. Ballard Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Named a Best Book of the Year by the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times, and the San Francisco Chronicle A collection of 98 enthralling and pulse-quickening stories, spanning five decades, venerates the remarkable imagination of J. G. Ballard. With a body of work unparalleled in twentieth-century literature, J. G. Ballard is recognized as one of the greatest and most prophetic writers in the world. With the much-hailed release of The Complete Stories of J. G. Ballard, readers now have a means to celebrate the unmatched range and mesmerizing cadences of a literary genius. Whether writing about musical orchids, human cannibalism, or the secret history of World War III, Ballard's Complete Stories evokes the hallucinations of Kafka and Borges in its ability to render modern paranoia and fantastical creations on the page. Includes the story "The Garden of Time," the inspiration for the 2024 Met Gala Dress code.
Author | : Bapsi Sidhwa |
Publisher | : Milkweed Editions |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2013-07-21 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1571319166 |
Download Water Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
An eight-year-old is sent to live in a community of widows in India, and finds a new purpose there, in a novel by “a writer of enormous talent” (Newsday). Set in 1938, against the backdrop of Gandhi’s rise to power, Water follows the life of eight-year-old Chuyia, abandoned at a widow’s ashram after the death of her elderly husband. There, she must live in penitence until her death. Unwilling to accept her fate, she becomes a catalyst for change in the widows’ lives. When her friend Kalyani, a beautiful widow-prostitute, falls in love with a young, upper-class Gandhian idealist, the forbidden affair boldly defies Hindu tradition and threatens to undermine the ashram’s delicate balance of power. This riveting look at the lives of widows in colonial India is ultimately a haunting and lyrical story of love, faith, and redemption. “Sidhwa’s humor and compassion glow in Water.” —Houston Chronicle “A deeply moving story, elegantly told, with all the assurance of a master.” —M.G. Vassanji, author of The In-Between World of Vikram Lall