Cult Fiction [antikvár]

J.G. Ballard Cocaine Nights 'Utterly compulsive. One is constantly being brought up short by the sheer strangeness of Ballard's imagination.' Sutiday Telegraph Five people die in an unexplained housefire in the Spanish resort of Estrella de Mar, an exclusive enclave fór the rich, retired British, centred around the thriving Club Nautico. The manager of the club, Frank Prentice, pleads guilty to charges of murder - yet nőt even the police believe him. When his brother Charles arrives to unravel the truth, he gradually discovers that behind the resort's civüised facade there is a secret world of crime, drugs and illicit sex . . . At once an engrossing mystery and an unnerving vision of a society coming to terms with unlimited leisure, Cocaine Nights is a stunningly original work of the imagination from one of Britain's leading writers - at the forefront of modem fiction writing fór over three decades. J.G. Ballard was bőm in 1930 in Shanghai, China. Altér the attack on Pearl Harbor, he and his family were placed in a civilian prison camp. They retumed to England in 1946. After working on a scientific joumal, he published his first növel, The Droumed World, in 1961. Subsequent novels include The Drought, The Crystal World, Crash, High-Rise and Empire of the Sun, which won the Guardian Fiction Prize and was shortlisted fór the Booker Prize. It was later filmed by Steven Spielberg. His most recent novels are The Kindness ofWomen and Rushing to Paradise. Cocaine Nights, a Sunday Times bestseller in hardback and paperback, was shortlisted fór the 1996 Whitbread Növel Award.