The Atrocity Exhibition

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RE/Search Publications, 1990 - Fiction - 127 pages
When the Atrocity Exhibition was originally printed (1970), Nelson Doubleday saw a copy and was so horrified he ordered the entire press run shredded. Two years later Grove Press brought out a small hardback printing re-titled Love and Napalm: Export USA. Now Re/Search brings out an illustrated, large-format edition of this notorious work, augmented with four recently written stories, plus extensive annotations-written by the author, never before published-which clarify and illuminate this exhilarating, prophetic masterpiece. Book jacket.

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Contents

Introduction by V Vale and A Juno
6
The University of Death
19
The Assassination Weapon
31
Copyright

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About the author (1990)

J.G. Ballard: Born in Shanghai November 15, 1930, James Graham Ballard spent the first 15 years of his life in China. Interned in a Japanese camp during World War II, he was repatriated to England at the age of sixteen. After studying medicine at Cambridge, he sold his first "speculative fiction" story to New Worlds in 1956 and began writing a series of planetary disaster novels, ultimately focusing on the inner landscape in psychopathological classics such as Crash and High-Rise. In 1987 Steven Spielberg made a movie of his best-selling autobiographical work, Empire of the Sun. For the past 30 years J.G. Ballard has lived in Shepperton, England, home of the famous film studios. {J.G. Ballard died April 19, 2009 in London, U.K.]

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