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Cocaine Nights
Cocaine Nights
paperback
Published:
1 September, 1997
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Description
‘Snort up “Cocaine Nights”. It’s disorientating, deranging and knocks the work of other avant-garde writers into a hatted cock’ Will Self
'One needs a great deal of idle time to feel really sorry for oneself.'
Nothing is as it seems in the sun-soaked Spanish paradise of Estrella de Mar. When a mysterious house fire disrupts the serenity of this exclusive enclave for retired, rich Brits, Charles Prentice finds himself investigating a murder – to which his brother has already confessed. As he begins to scratch at the perfect veneer of this playground for the privileged, Charles is sent down a sinister spiral of his own, to uncover a dark world of adultery, drugs and violent crime bubbling underneath.
More Details
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9780006550648 |
| ISBN10 | 0006550649 |
| Number Of Pages | 352 |
| Item Weight | 310 g |
| Product Dimensions | 129 x 198 x 24 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Format | paperback |
Media Reviews
'Utterly compulsive' Sunday Telegraph 'Snort up "Cocaine Nights". It's disorientating, deranging and knocks the work of other avant-garde writers into a hatted cock' Will Self 'The possessor of a terrifying and exhilarating imagination - and a national treasure' Guardian 'Guaranteed to keep you reading into the early hours' Sunday Times 'Thrillingly wired ... dazzlingly original' Independent 'The terrifying thing about Ballard is his logic; is this science fiction or history written ahead of its time?' Len Deighton
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Author's Bio
J. G. Ballard was born in 1930 in Shanghai. After internment in a civilian prison camp, his family returned to England in 1946. His 1984 bestseller ‘Empire of the Sun’ won the Guardian Fiction Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. His controversial novel ‘Crash’ was made into a film by David Cronenberg. His autobiography ‘Miracles of Life’ was published in 2008, and a collection of interviews with the author, ‘Extreme Metaphors’, was published in 2012. J. G. Ballard passed away in 2009.