Rushing to Paradise: A Novel
by:
J.G. Ballard (author)
"[A] chilling . . . tale about humans who gamely follow their own worst instincts.”—Chicago TribuneLed by a charismatic and slightly unhinged woman, a group of environmentalists wrest control over a small South Pacific island in hopes of cultivating it into their own private Eden. But paradise is...
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"[A] chilling . . . tale about humans who gamely follow their own worst instincts.”—Chicago TribuneLed by a charismatic and slightly unhinged woman, a group of environmentalists wrest control over a small South Pacific island in hopes of cultivating it into their own private Eden. But paradise is not quite what it seems in this “searing” (Kirkus Reviews) send-up of environmentalism, feminism, and extremism of all sorts.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780871403377 (0871403374)
Publish date: February 4th 2013
Publisher: Liveright
Pages no: 240
Edition language: English
Initially, faced with another physician-of-questionable-reputation character and a character with a nuclear weapons fascination and the inevitability of an isolated microcosm of society setting for most of the book, I found myself wondering if I really needed to read any more Ballard? All of these w...