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Ballard, J. G. (James Graham)
The Day of Creation
New York Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1988 0374135274 / 9780374135270 First U.S. Edition Hard Cover Very Good Fine Collectible
253 pp.; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. One corner lightly bumped, else fine. Expected browning. Stated "First American edition." Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. "At Port-la-Nouvelle, on the parched terrain of central Africa, Dr. Mallory watches as his clinic fails and dreams of discovering a third Nile that will make the Sahara bloom. When there is a trickle on the local airstrip, and soon a river, the obsessed Mallory claims it as his own creation. Joined by Noon, a silent adolescent girl who as a child ran with the local guerrillas; Professor Sanger, a documentary filmmaker with a fading reputation; and Nora Warrer, the widow of a Rhodesian veterinary surgeon, the remains of whose menagerie flourish exotically amid the land's new fertility, Mallory sets out for the river's source. The Day of Creation is a metaphysical adventure story dealing with complex themes--the life-giving qualities of water, the cold eye of television, obsession, love--all set in a dream Africa, as if hallucinated by Joseph Conrad. / J. G. Ballard is the author of more than twenty novels and short-story collections. He lives in Shepperton, England." - Publisher.
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12.95 USD
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