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Published: 09/05/2024
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A prophetic and experimental masterpiece by J. G. Ballard, the acclaimed author of ‘Crash’ and ‘Super-Cannes’, featuring an introduction by Hari Kunzru.

The human organism is an atrocity exhibition at which he is an unwilling spectator …

As the protagonist spirals into the depths of a nervous breakdown, his dreams are haunted by images of John F. Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe, astronauts and car-crash victims. A kaleidoscopic scrapbook of mass culture, his mind fixates on the consumerism of the modern world – a hallucinatory obsession with celebrity, media, sex and violence. With the media infiltrating every corner of our psyche, have the lines blurred between fiction and reality?

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN: 9780007116867
Number of pages: 208
Weight: 200 g
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 16 mm
Edition: Annotated edition


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‘Brilliant and unnerving … Ballard is a writer with talent to burn’ The Times ‘These stories – “condensed novels”, Ballard has called them – are a high-water mark in English experimental fiction’ New York Times ‘A powerful book … Phrase and image are constantly disturbing and stimulating’ Sunday Telegraph ‘The terrifying thing about Ballard is his logic; is this science fiction or history written ahead of its time?’ Len Deighton

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“The Atrocity Exhibition: Annotated”

Another wonderfully surreal journey into the mind of J.G. Ballard. It's not easy to summarise the plot of a novel so densely packed with themes, ideas and analysis but, in essence, this is a tale of the inner... More

Paperback edition
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“The Atrocity Exhibition: Annotated”

Another wonderfully surreal journey into the mind of J.G. Ballard. It's not easy to summarise the plot of a novel so densely packed with themes, ideas and analysis but, in essence, this is a tale of the inner... More

Paperback edition
Helpful? Upvote 25

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