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Vermilion Sands
Ballard
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Description for Vermilion Sands
paperback. Welcome to Vermilion Sands, the fully automated desert-resort ready to fulfill your most exotic whims. Home to the idle rich it now languishes in uneasy decay, populated only by forgotten movie queens, solitary impresarios and the remittance men of the artistic and literary world. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 15. Weight in Grams: 190.
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Welcome to Vermilion Sands, the fully automated desert-resort ready to fulfil your most exotic whims. Home to the idle rich it now languishes in uneasy decay, populated only by forgotten movie queens, solitary impresarios and the remittance men of the artistic and literary world. Discover prima donna plants programmed to sing operatic arias, dial-a-poem computers and psychosensitive houses capable of murder. These quintessentially Ballardian short stories of dystopian modernity are Ballard’s ‘guess at what the future will actually be like’.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099273585
SKU
9780099273585
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Ref
99-1
About Ballard
J. G. Ballard was born in 1930 in Shanghai, China. After the attack on Pearl Harbour the family was interned in a civilian camp. They returned to England in 1946. In 1956 Ballard's first story was published in New Worlds. His first novel, The Drowned World, was published in 1962. Empire of the Sun, a novel based on his own ... Read more
Reviews for Vermilion Sands
Pure, weird pleasure
Los Angeles Times
Ballard's best and most characteristic work is in his early novels and short stories
New Statesman
The most significant English novelist of the second half of the 20th century
Will Self
Prospect
A writer of enormous inventive powers, Ballard has, like Calvino, a remarkable gift for filing ... Read more
Los Angeles Times
Ballard's best and most characteristic work is in his early novels and short stories
New Statesman
The most significant English novelist of the second half of the 20th century
Will Self
Prospect
A writer of enormous inventive powers, Ballard has, like Calvino, a remarkable gift for filing ... Read more