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Atrocity Exhibition by J. G. Ballard (1990, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherRe/Search Publications

ISBN-101889307033

ISBN-139781889307039

eBay Product ID (ePID)174165

Product Key Features

Edition2

Book TitleAtrocity Exhibition

Number of Pages136 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year1990

TopicErotica / Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror, Literary, Science Fiction / General

IllustratorYes

GenreFiction

AuthorJ. G. Ballard

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Weight17 Oz

Item Length11 in

Item Width8.5 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

Reviews"...the amazing 1980 RE/Search edition, an unsettlinglarge-format juxtaposition of a newly Ballard-annotated text against deftly detourned medical illustrations and photographs of modern architecture. Likely theperfect form of an edifice of deconstructed experience of the 20thcentury."-- Goodreads, Nate D "... The Atrocity Exhibition is a profound book in whicha man's fragmented self explores the post-modern era of Hollywood stars, articons, Pop celebs and Congo massacres, WW3 (yes) bomber pilots, pornography(the ultimate form of scientific exploration of the human body). The maincharacter's several identities set off in search of a meaning--a journey throughthe chaotic orgy of madness and violence taking place all around him (and us)at any given moment. All we vaguely know is that our man is a doctor, possiblya psychiatrist or a neurologist. Then his psyche, haunted by the daily'atrocity exhibition' of our era and struggling to make sense of it all,degenerates into a shapeshifting conundrum of identities... images ofcelebrities: Marilyn Monroe (disfigured by radioactivity bruises), AlbertCamus, Lee Harvey Oswald, Brigitte Bardot, Jacqueline Kennedy, Ralph Nader areall actors in the same atrocity newsreel--atrocious exhibits in the frighteningmuseum of our time... "The great icons of Surrealism provide the writer with ahuge amount of visual inspiration; in fact he explicitly refers to the art ofDali, Dominguez, Tanguy, Ernst, Matta all throughout the book... The AtrocityExhibition is an enigma to be deciphered. A medieval mystery of the atomicera... I therefore recommend those readers who are still unacquainted withBallard to start with this absolute masterpiece, without being afraid of itsreputation. It is neither incomprehensible nor meaningless; just let yourself go and delve into it. Believe me, you'll feel at home."-- Goodreads, Fede

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Dewey Edition20

Dewey Decimal823/.914

Edition DescriptionAnnotated edition

Table Of ContentChapter 1: TheAtrocity Exhibition Chapter 2: The University of Death Chapter 3: The Assassination Weapon Chapter 4: You: Coma: Marilyn Monroe Chapter 5: Notes Towards a Mental Breakdown Chapter 6: The Great American Nude Chapter 7: The Summer Cannibals Chapter 8: Tolerances of the Human Face Chapter 9: You and Me and the Continuum Chapter 10: Plan for the Assassination of Jacqueline Kennedy Chapter 11: Love and Napalm: Export U.S.A. Chapter 12: Crash! Chapter 13: The Generations of America Chapter 14: Why I Want to Fuck Ronald Reagan Chapter 15: The Assassination of John Fitzgerald KennedyConsidered as a Downhill Motor Ra Appendix: Princess Margaret's Facelift Mae West's Reduction Mammoplasty Queen Elizabeth's Rhinoplasty The Secret History of World War 3

SynopsisThe Atrocity Exhibitionis J.G. Ballard's most complex, disturbing work, with fabulous photos by Ana Barrado and artwork by Phoebe Gloeckner., The Atrocity Exhibition is an experimental novel of linkedstories or "condensed novels" by British writer J.G. Ballard. Genre isexperimental, science-fiction, dystopian, speculative fiction.It is J.G. Ballard's most complex, disturbing work, with fabulous photos by Ana Barrado and artwork by Phoebe Gloeckner., The Atrocity Exhibition is an experimental novel of linked stories or "condensed novels" by British writer J.G. Ballard. Genre is experimental, science-fiction, dystopian, speculative fiction. It is J.G. Ballard's most complex, disturbing work, with fabulous photos by Ana Barrado and artwork by Phoebe Gloeckner.