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The Atrocity Exhibition (Flamingo Modern Classics)

By J. G. Ballard

Book information

Year
2001
ISBN
0007116861, 9780007116867, 0007130880, 9780007130887, 9780585469454
Open Library ID
OL24294050M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
549 kB (561671 bytes)
Pages
192\193
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

First published in 1970 and widely regarded as a prophetic masterpiece, this is a groundbreaking experimental novel by the acclaimed author of 'Crash' and 'Super-Cannes', who has supplied explanatory notes for this new edition. The irrational, all-pervading violence of the modern world is the subject of this extraordinary tour de force. The central character's dreams are haunted by images of John F. Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe, dead astronauts and car-crash victims as he traverses the screaming wastes of nervous breakdown. Seeking his sanity, he casts himself in a number of roles: H-bomber pilot, presidential assassin, crash victim, pscyhopath. Finally, through the black, perverse magic of violence he transcends his psychic turmoils to find the key to a bizarre new sexuality.

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