Super-Cannes

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A high-tech business park on the Mediterranean coast is the setting for a most disturbing crime in this bestseller from the master of dystopia, J. G. Ballard. After over three decades at the forefront of modern fiction, J. G. Ballard reached a new generation of readers with the bestselling thriller ‘Cocaine Nights’. In ‘Super-Cannes’, he delved into another closed community, where it is claimed that ‘work is the new leisure’. A disturbing mystery awaits Paul and Jane Sinclair when they arrive in Eden-Olympia, a high-tech business park in the hills above Cannes. Jane is to work as a doctor for those who live in this ultra- modern workers’ paradise. But what caused her predecessor to go on a shooting spree that mad headlines around the world? As Paul investigates, he begins to uncover a thriving subculture of crime hat is spiralling out of control. Both novel of ideas and complex thriller, ‘Super-Cannes’ is an extraordinary satire from the author of ‘Empire of the Sun’, ‘The Drowned World’ and ‘Crash’. This edition is part of a new commemorative series of Ballard’s works, featuring introductions from a number of his admirers (including Ali Smith, Iain Sinclair, Martin Amis and Ned Beauman) and brand- \nnew cover designs from the artist Stanley Donwood.

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.

J. G. Ballard

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