About this product

Product Identifiers

PublisherLiveright Publishing Corporation

ISBN-10087140401X

ISBN-139780871404015

eBay Product ID (ePID)14038830461

Product Key Features

Book TitleDrought : a Novel

Number of Pages240 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2012

TopicPsychological, Literary, Gothic, Science Fiction / General

GenreFiction

AuthorJ. G. Ballard

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight6.7 Oz

Item Length8.2 in

Item Width5.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2011-050939

TitleLeadingThe

ReviewsThe experience Mr. Ballard offers is mystical...It is weird; it is grotesque; it is magnificently Gothic., The most cosmically elegiac writer in literature...[N]o one reading Ballard could doubt the tidal gravity of his intellect., A very impressive book by a deeply serious writer, the originality and power of whose vision can be felt., By arranging a world drought to kill off the majority of people, [Ballard] brings his characters to a state of timeless, arid obsession with what is left of water and of their own selves...[A] sensitive, baroque study in decadence.

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal823/.914

SynopsisAn apocalyptic dystopia like no other, one whose "originality and power [of] vision can be felt" (Times Literary Supplement)., Water. Man's most precious commodity is a luxury of the past. Radioactive waste from years of industrial dumping has caused the sea to form a protective skin strong enough to devastate the Earth it once sustained. And while the remorseless sun beats down on the dying land, civilization itself begins to crack. The world is threatened by dramatic climate change in this highly acclaimed and influential novel, one of the most important early works by the best-selling author of Cocaine Nights and Super-Cannes., Water. Man's most precious commodity is a luxury of the past. Radioactive waste from years of industrial dumping has caused the sea to form a protective skin strong enough to devastate the Earth it once sustained. And while the remorseless sun beats down on the dying land, civilization itself begins to crack. The world is threatened by dramatic climate change in this highly acclaimed and influential novel, one of the most important early works by the best-selling author of Cocaine Nights and Super-Cannes .

LC Classification NumberPR6052.A46D7 2012