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The atrocity exhibition

by J. G. Ballard

This experimental novel explores the irrational violence of the modern world through a protagonist haunted by dreams of cultural icons, dead astronauts and car crashes. Combining science fiction, history and pornography, the narrative rejects traditional linearity.

Accession 10808 ISBN 0224618385 Publisher Jonathan Cape
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