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A violent novel filled with insidious twists, Kingdom Come follows the exploits of Richard Pearson, a rebellious, unemployed advertising executive, whose father is gunned down by a deranged mental patient in a vast shopping mall outside Heathrow Airport. When the prime suspect is released without charge, Richard’s suspicions are aroused. Investigating the mystery, Richard uncovers at the Metro-Centre mall a neo-fascist world whose charismatic spokesperson is whipping up the masses into a state of unsustainable frenzy. Riots frequently terrorize the complex, immigrant communities are attacked by hooligans, and sports events mushroom into jingoistic political rallies. In this gripping, dystopian tour de force, J.G. Ballard holds up a mirror to suburban mind rot, revealing the darker forces at work beneath the gloss of consumerism and flag-waving patriotism.
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‘Dystopias are Ballard’s stock-in-trade and, when on song, he animates them better than anyone else...it takes a master novelist to pick out the small details...fascinating.’ Sunday Telegraph
‘It is his ability to summon a deteriorated but recognisable modern world into being that makes him among the finest dystopians at work.’ Sunday Times
‘We’re in Ballard-land, his old archetypes at war in a familiar-yet-strange terrain, and that should be compelling enough for any reader...Ballard, paradoxically, with all his characters gripped by obsession and necessity, is one of the great novelists of freedom.’ Financial Times
‘“Kingdom Come” looks like a report on the state of modern Britain, but it’s really a report on the state of J.G. Ballard’s head, and the good news is that it’s as fertile as ever...“Kingdom Come” is impressively packed with brilliant apercus.’ Observer
‘The Magus of Shepperton is on tip-top form. No-one else writes with such enchanted clarity or strange power as James Graham Ballard.’Evening Standard
‘Ballard's nightmare of consumerism-turned-fascism has enough truth among the fantasy to turn outings to B&Q and IKEA into decidedly sinister operations.’ Dazed & Confused
‘If anger is the rocket-fuel of satire, then J.G. Ballard is a one-man danger zone...exhilarating...important, challenging, (a) justly furious novel.’ The Independent
‘“Kingdom Come”, his latest novel, demonstrates that he is still in his eight decade, as outre as ever, and still as keen to understand the national psyche...Ballard still retains a clear-sighted, almost vatic quality, which makes him telepathically linked to the subconscious mind of Middle England.’ The Spectator
'Ballard retains the terrifying, satirical, self-possessedness that makes him never less than worth reading.' Independent on Sunday
'Funny, chilling and prescient, this is certainly a novel whose message no one can afford to ignore.' The Times
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. 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. It was later filmed by Steven Spielberg. His most recent novel was ‘Kingdom Come’, published in 2006.
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- PublisherW W Norton & Co Inc
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 0393081788
- ISBN 13 9780393081787
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages304
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