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The Drought - by J G Ballard (Paperback)

The Drought - by  J G Ballard (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>An apocalyptic dystopia like no other, one whose "originality and power [of] vision can be felt" ("Times Literary Supplement").<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Weird and mesmerizingly grotesque, The Drought tells the chilling story of the world on the brink of extinction, where a global drought, brought on by industrial waste, has left mankind in a life-or-death search for water. Violence erupts and insanity reigns as the human race struggles for survival in a worldwide desert of despair.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>A strange and wonderful book.-- "Guardian"<br><br>A very impressive book by a deeply serious writer, the originality and power of whose vision can be felt.-- "Times Literary Supplement"<br><br>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.-- "Daily Telegraph"<br><br>The experience Mr. Ballard offers is mystical...It is weird; it is grotesque; it is magnificently Gothic.-- "Sunday Times"<br><br>The most cosmically elegiac writer in literature...[N]o one reading Ballard could doubt the tidal gravity of his intellect.--Jonathan Lethem "New York Times Book Review"<br>

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