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A User's Guide to the Millennium: Essays and Reviews

J.G. Ballard

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Eclectic essays dissecting culture, arts, and life.

Imagine sitting down with a deeply insightful friend, one who's lived through and seen the changes of modernity, and has a captivating, sometimes unsettling take on it all. This is J. G. Ballard's "A User's Guide to the Millennium." His non-fiction is a journey through the restless landscape of the 20th century, perfect if you're into thought-provoking reflections on society, literature, and the human psyche.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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A User's Guide to the Millennium: Essays and Reviews

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ISBN: 9780312144401
Author: J.G. Ballard
Publisher: St Martins Pr
Date of Publication: 1996-01-01
Format: Hardcover
Related Collections: Creative Nonfiction
Related Topics: Literary Criticism, Nonfiction, Essays
Goodreads rating: 3.85
(rated by 442 readers)

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Collected for the first time, these are the nonfiction writings of one of this century's most important voices. Among Ballard's subjects are Dali and de Sade, Marilyn Monroe and Nancy Reagan, atom bombs and highways, sex and science fiction. The pieces - more than ninety in all, written between 1963 and 1995 - exhibit the same sharp vision and sharper prose that has distinguished all of Ballard's fiction. His fascination for and fixation upon this century take him from William Burroughs to Elvis Presley, and through his eyes we see our times more clearly and more pointedly.
 

Eclectic essays dissecting culture, arts, and life.

Imagine sitting down with a deeply insightful friend, one who's lived through and seen the changes of modernity, and has a captivating, sometimes unsettling take on it all. This is J. G. Ballard's "A User's Guide to the Millennium." His non-fiction is a journey through the restless landscape of the 20th century, perfect if you're into thought-provoking reflections on society, literature, and the human psyche.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

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