The Day of Creation

图书信息

作者	J. G. Ballard
出版社	Fourth Estate
ISBN	9780007290116
出版时间	2010-06-24
字数	41.2万
分类	进口书,外文原版书,小说

读书简介

An unforgettable voyage of the imagination from the bestselling author of ‘Cocaine Nights’ and ‘Super-Cannes’ – one of his most acclaimed novels. In parched Port-la-Nouvelle in central Africa, Dr Mallory watches his clinic fail and dreams of discovering a third Nile to make the Sahara bloom. During his search for water, an ancient tree stump is uprooted by a bulldozer and water wells up, spreading until it becomes an enormous river. With the once arid land now abounding in birds and beasts, the obsessed Mallory forges up-river in an old car ferry, clashing with hostile factions as he tries to find the source of his own creation.

目录

Title Page

Copyright

Praise

Contents

Introduction by Joshua Cohen

1 The Desert Woman

2 The Gunmen

3 The Third Nile

4 The Shooting Party

5 Fame

6 The Oak and the Spring

7 The Impresario of Rubbish

8 The Creation Garden

9 The River Mallory

10 The Cascade

11 The House of Women

12 Noon

13 Piracy

14 Out of the Night and into the Dream

15 The Naming of New Things

16 The Helicopter Attack

17 Escape

18 The Green World

19 The Lanterns at Dusk

20 The Documentary Film

21 The Skirmish

22 Into the Lagoons

23 Journey Towards the Rain Planet

24 A Dream of Fair Women

25 The Wildfowlers

26 The Gardens of the Sahara

27 The Stolen Channel

28 Doctor Mal

29 The Blue Beaches

30 The Arcade Peep-Show

31 The Death of the Diana

32 The Poisoned Valley

33 The River Search

34 The Source

35 Memory and Desire

Interview with J. G. Ballard

About the Author

By the Same Author

About the Publisher