The Disaster Area
Language: English
Published by Jonathan Cape, Bedford Square, London, 1984
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Amnesty Bookshop - Brighton, Brighton, United KingdomAmnesty Bookshop - Brighton
AbeBooks seller since May 31, 2019
Condition: Used - Fair
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This is a re-issue of a collection of Ballard's dystopian short stories; first published in 1967. (See the image of the Contents page for details). It is important to note that this is an ex-library book (East Sussex County Library). For some collectors this will render it a Disaster Area in itself. Despite this provenance, for others it may appeal… Detail: it has all the library ephemera one might expect - ticket card holder, loan date sheet, overdue warnings, bar codes and other stamped information and tabs. One advantage (arguably) is that the dust jacket is sealed to the boards - which at least means that it is in a good, if irremovable, condition. The overall state of the book is reasonable - intact with a fair amount of tanning plus occasional foxing. Reasonably tight binding. pp. 203. 16mo. Please note that, depending on destination, we may request a payment to cover any extra shipping & postage charges. Proceeds to Amnesty International. Abe2620.
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- Title
- The Disaster Area
- Author
- BALLARD, J.G.
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape, Bedford Square, London
- Publication year
- 1984
- Condition
- Fair
- Dust jacket
- Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0224611887
- ISBN 13
- 9780224611886
- Illustrator
- Brian Robins (jacket design)
- Item weight
- 0.298 kilograms
- Dimensions
- 130 millimeters width by 190 millimeters height by 20 millimeters depth
From the Back Cover
This mesmerising collection demonstrates perfectly Ballard's extraordinary writing talent. All the concentrated power and imagination that distinguish his novels are demonstrated here: the iron strength of his stories lies in the juxtaposition of a recognisable physical word with an inner, complex dream landscape. Within this Disaster Area you'll find:
'The Concentration City' – where the world creaks under one unimaginably vast megalopolis. There is no free space, and there is no way out...
'The Subliminal Man' – come face to face with the ultimate advertisement, then wish you hadn't...
'Manhole 69' – a group of surgically altered men try to do without sleep. But permanent consciousness turns out to be worse than any nightmare.
"Ballard's post-despair world, haunted by technological ghosts, is an environment like nobody else's"
BRIAN ALDISS
"One of the most sensitive and enigmatic novelists of the present day"
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