Rushing to Paradise [electronic resource] : ePub edition
Ballard, J. G.2012
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Her crusade gains widespread coverage when earnest young environmentalist Neil Dempsey is shot during an ill-fated attempt to rescue the bird from its Pacific island habitat, Saint-Esprit. Support for the conservationists grows and well-wishers flock to the island, bringing with them specimens of other endangered creatures to be protected by Dr Barbara and her crew. The island seems a new Eden. But is the intense Dr Barbara as altruistic as she appears? Why are the islanders committing acts of self-sabotage? And what’s keeping Neil alive while the other men sicken?A classic exploration of the extremes of human behaviour from J. G Ballard, this is a brilliantly unsettling novel in which all preconceptions are overthrown. ‘Ballard is a magician of the contemporary scene and a literary saboteur. Rushing to Paradise is a Wellsian drama of extremity and isolation… No one else writes with such enchanted clarity or strange power’ Guardian 'Pure Ballard. I read it with rapt fascination… Wonderful’ William Boyd ‘Robinson Crusoe in reverse. Teasing and sardonic… Ballard at his best’ Independent on Sunday
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[Place of publication not identified] : Fourth Estate, 2012
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1 online resource (1 text file)
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9780007384891
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English
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2777236
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