Rushing to Paradise - Hardcover

Ballard, J. G.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 031213164X ISBN 13: 9780312131647

Publisher: Picador USA, 1995

Synopsis

A slightly mad environmentalist named Dr. Barbara takes over a Pacific atoll and creates a utopian community, which quickly becomes a less than ideal place. By the author of Empire of the Sun.

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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. After internment in a civilian prison camp, his family returned to England in 1946. His 1984 bestseller ‘Empire of the Sun’ won the Guardian Fiction Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. His controversial novel ‘Crash’ was made into a film by David Cronenberg. His autobiography ‘Miracles of Life’ was published in 2008, and a collection of interviews with the author, ‘Extreme Metaphors’, was published in 2012. J. G. Ballard passed away in 2009.

About this edition

• Publisher: Picador USA
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 031213164X
• ISBN 13: 9780312131647
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1