Rushing to Paradise - Softcover

Ballard, J. G.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 000224134X ISBN 13: 9780002241342

Publisher: Flamingo, 1994

Synopsis

A key backlist title from the author of Cocaine Nights – to be reissued as part of a repackaging of the Ballard backlist.

Veteran campaigner Dr Barbara Rafferty’s obsessive crusade to save the albatross on the Pacific atoll of Saint-Esprit suddenly gains international support when millions of TV viewers witness the shooting of her young acolyte Neil Dempsey on a foolhardy rescue mission. Soon Dr Barbara turns the deserted island into a sanctuary – a remote paradise home for Neil, an odd team of eco-enthusiasts and idealists and a growing collection of the world’s endangered species. In time they will discover that some species are in more danger than others.

About this title

Review:

‘Ballard is a magician of the contemporary scene and a literary saboteur. “Rushing to Paradise” is a Wellsian drama of extremity and isolation ... No one else writes with such enchanted clarity or strange power’ Guardian

‘Pure Ballard. I read it with rapt fascination ... Wonderful’ William Boyd

‘”Robinson Crusoe” in reverse. Teasing and sardonic ... Ballard at his best’ Independent on Sunday

About the Author:

J. G. Ballard was born in 1930 in Shanghai, where his father was a businessman. After internment in a civilian prison camp, he and his family returned to England in 1946. He published his first novel, The Drowned World, in 1961. His 1984 bestseller Empire of the Sun won the Guardian Fiction Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. His memoir Miracles of Life was published in 2008. J. G. Ballard died in 2009.

About this edition

• Publisher: Flamingo
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 000224134X
• ISBN 13: 9780002241342
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288