The Terminal Beach - Softcover

Ballard, J. G.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140024999 ISBN 13: 9780140024999

Publisher: Penguin, 1974

Synopsis

From the author of CRASH and EMPIRE OF THE SUN, a reissued collection of short stories last published in 1985, which examine the paradox that exists between humanity's creative abilities and destructive impulses. Includes THE TERMINAL BEACH, about an island used for atomic bomb tests and subsequently deserted, and THE GIOCONDA OF THE TWILIGHT NOON.

About this title

Book Description:

A first-class short story collection from bestselling author J G Ballard

About the Author:

SALES POINTS
Reissued in a new cover style alongside The Voices of Time
J G Ballard is widely recognised as one of the finest writers of the 20th century
His novel Empire of the Sun won the Guardian Fiction Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. It was later filmed by Steven Spielberg.
¿Ballard¿s ferocious intelligence, his wit, his cantankerousness, and in particular his extraordinary rendering of the perverse pleasures of today¿s paranoia, make him one of the grand magicians of modern fiction¿ Brian Aldiss
¿It is utterly appropriate to number Ballard among the true contemporary radicals of the imagination . . . His best work is simply a new way of looking at the world¿ New Musical Express

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1974
• ISBN 10: 0140024999
• ISBN 13: 9780140024999
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224