Kingdom Come - Softcover

Ballard, J. G.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0871403196 ISBN 13: 9780871403193

Verlag: LIVERIGHT PUB CORP, 2013

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Impressively packed with brilliant apercus.

Ballard, paradoxically, with all his characters gripped by obsession and necessity, is one of the great novelists of freedom.
[T]here's a lot of irony in Ballard. If his late (and very funny) books sound peculiar to American ears, it's probably because of his very English tendency to play almost everything he says, however outrageous, at moderate to low volumes. Unlike the noisier, New Yorkerish avant-garde types who like to shock and awe their readers, Ballard doesn't shout or swear or get in your face. Even his most disturbing obscenities...are as mannered and concise and unimpassioned as a GPS device's soothing, digitally modulated voice describing how to reach the next gas station.--Scott Bradfield

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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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• Verlag: LIVERIGHT PUB CORP
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0871403196
• ISBN 13: 9780871403193
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 310