FICTION
Released: March 5, 2012
"Ballard writes brilliantly about the nightmarish underside of modern life, and this novel makes us poignantly aware of the loss of his voice. "
Ballard (1930–2009) creates a world reminiscent of
A Clockwork Orange and
V for Vendetta in this novel of suburban fascism.
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FICTION
Released: Jan. 1, 2001
"The sleek mystery plot makes this the most accessible, if not exactly the most successful, of Ballard's fictional diatribes against the psychopathology of postmodern capitalist culture."
Lured to a Euro-corporate paradise a stone's throw from Cannes, the husband of the facility's new pediatrician, struck by mysterious doings, gradually discovers that (gasp!) he's in a J.G. Ballard novel.
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FICTION
Released: May 1, 1998
"For all Ballard's air of jaunty abstraction—his tawdry comedie humaine seems to be viewed through the wrong end of a telescope—his prophetic eye for the ties that bind is as sharp and unsparing as ever."
A bristling thriller pastiche from the surrealistic novelist (Rushing to Paradise, 1995, etc.) and peripatetic social observer (A User's Guide to the Millennium, 1996).
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FICTION
Released: May 1, 1995
"Probably Ballard's best and most accessible yet."
Searing, visceral tragicomedy of epic proportions, this novel of a cult leader and her followers on a Pacific island is Ballard's triumphant synthesis of the range of themes that have preoccupied him throughout his career (The Kindness of Women, 1991, etc.).
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