Cocaine Nights - Softcover

Ballard, J. G.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1582430179 ISBN 13: 9781582430171

Publisher: Perseus Books, 1999

Synopsis

Features a man who finds himself drawn into a network of drugs, pornography, and murder in a Spanish resort

About this title

Review:

"What infuses Cocaine Nights is a curious blend of deadpan detachment and almost comical self-consciousness." The New York Times Book Review

"A bristling thriller pastiche." Kirkus Reviews

A bit of metaphysical terrorism as carefully planned and executed as [a] fatal blaze." Washington Post

"[Ballard's] bleak picture of trouble in paradise has the ring of truth." Publishers Weekly

Cocaine Nights comes at you like a conventional 'all-is-not-as-it-seems' whodunit. But all is not as it seems. Under the light crust of gentility lies a familiar Ballard landscape of sociopathic violence, transgressive sex and the inevitable pornographic web that lies in between . . . There is nothing quite like a J. G. Ballard novel.” The Guardian

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: Perseus Books
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 1582430179
• ISBN 13: 9781582430171
• Binding: Paperback