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ISBN-10: 1582435707
ISBN-13: 9781582435701
Publisher: Counterpoint LLC
Publish Date: 01/05/2010
Dimensions: 7.90" L, 4.90" W, 1.00" H

Cocaine Nights

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Overview

From the iconic author of Crash and Empire of the Sun, Cocaine Nights features a man who finds himself drawn into a network of drugs, pornography, and murder in a Spanish resort.

The remarkable bestseller from one of the giants of modern British literature–at once an engrossing mystery and an unnerving vision of a society coming to terms with a life of unlimited leisure. When Charles Prentice arrives in Spain to investigate his brother’s involvement in the death of five people in a fire in the upmarket coastal resort of Estrella de Mar, he gradually discovers that beneath the civilised, cultured surface of this exclusive enclave for Britain’s retired rich there flourishes a secret world of crime, drugs and illicit sex . What starts as an engrossing mystery develops into a mesmerising novel of ideas–a dazzling work of the imagination from one of Britain’s most original and controversial novelists.

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Reviews
"What infuses Cocaine Nights is a curious blend of deadpan detachment and almost comical self-consciousness." –The New York Times Book Review

"A bristling thriller pastiche." –Kirkus Reviews

"A bit of metaphysical terrorism as carefully planned and executed as [a] fatal blaze." –Washington Post

"[Ballard's] bleak picture of trouble in paradise has the ring of truth." –Publishers Weekly

"Cocaine Nights comes at you like a conventional 'all-is-not-as-it-seems' whodunit. But all is not as it seems. Under the light crust of gentility lies a familiar Ballard landscape of sociopathic violence, transgressive sex and the inevitable pornographic web that lies in between . . . There is nothing quite like a J. G. Ballard novel." –The Guardian

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Details

ISBN-10: 1582435707
ISBN-13: 9781582435701
Publisher: Counterpoint LLC
Publish Date: 01/05/2010
Dimensions: 7.90" L, 4.90" W, 1.00" H
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