Millennium People by J G Ballard
Violent rebellion comes to London’s middle classes in the extraordinary new novel from the author of ‘Cocaine Nights’ and ‘Super-Cannes’. When a bomb goes off at Heathrow it looks like just another random act of violence to psychologist David Markham. But then he discovers that his ex-wife Laura is among the victims. Acting on police suspicions, he starts to investigate London’s fringe protest movements, falling in with a shadowy group based in the comfortable Thameside estate of Chelsea Marina. Led by a charismatic doctor, the group aims to rouse the docile middle classes to anger and violence, to free them from both the self-imposed burdens of civic responsibility and the trappings of a consumer society – private schools, foreign nannies, health insurance and overpriced housing. Markham, seeking the truth behind Laura’s death, is swept up in a campaign that spirals rapidly out of control. Every certainty in his life is questioned as the cornerstones of middle England become targets and growing panic grips the capital…‘Wonderfully warped, blackly comic…written with Ballard’s customary panache, its potent mix of sex, violence and radicalism will keep his fans happy“Millennium People” is at once deadly serious and slightly ridiculous – and somehow all the more unsettling for it.’ Economist
‘Much of the fun of “Millennium People” – and it is one of the most amusing novels I’ve read in a long time – comes from watching as the world finally catches up with Ballard and Ballard, wryly, reacts.’ Guardian
‘Terrifying and strangely haunting…A riveting work from a writer of rare imaginative largesse, a bearer of bad tidings, unforgettably told.’ Daily Telegraph
J.G. Ballard was born in 1930 in Shanghai, where his father was a businessman. After internment in a civilian prison camp, he and 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, and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. It was later filmed by Steven Spielberg. His controversial novel Crash was also made into an equally controversial film by David Cronenberg. His most recent novels are the Sunday Times bestsellers Cocaine Nights and Super-Cannes.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780007173051 |
| ISBN 10 | 0007173059 |
| Title | Millennium People |
| Author | J G Ballard |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Year published | 2003-11-03 |
| Number of pages | 304 |
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