- Fiction, Retirees, British, Detective and mystery stories
Five people die in an unexplained housefire in the Spanish resort of Estrella de Mar, an exclusive enclave for the rich, retired British, centred around the thriving Club Nautico. The manager of the club, Frank Prentice, pleads guilty to charges of murder - yet not even the police believe him. When his brother Charles arrives to unravel the truth, he gradually discovers that behind the resort's civilised facade lurks a secret world of crime, drugs and illicit sex...
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Grave, classical in form, contemporary and cool.
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- cooloverwhelming
- warmbleak
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- Author
- J. G. Ballard
- First published
- 1996
- Pages
- 333
- Publisher
- Sterling Publishing Co., Inc., HarperCollins Publishers Limited, Counterpoint
- Editions
- 8
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781841973883
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James Graham Ballard was born and raised in the International Settlement in Shanghai, China to a chemist. In 1943 the Japanese occupied the International Settlement and Ballard's family was sent to the Lunghua Civilian Assembly Center, where they were interned for two years until the end of World War II. In 1946, Ballard went to England with his mother and sister, and stayed on in England after his mother and sister returned to China to rejoin his father. In 1949 he went to King's College, Cambridge to study medicine, but he began writing fiction and abandoned medicine in 1952 to pursue writing. In 1953 he joined the Air Force and was sent to the Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan to train. There he di
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