- Fiction, Physicians, Water-supply, Water supply
In parched Port-la-Nouvelle in Central Africa, Dr Mallory watches his clinic fail and dreams of discovering a third Nile to make the Sahara bloom. During his search for water, an ancient tree stump is uprooted by a bulldozer and water wells up, spreading until it becomes an enormous river. With the once arid land now abounding in birds and beasts, the obsessed Mallory forges upriver, clashing with hostile factions in his quest to find the source of his own creation.
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Grave, contemporary, classical in form and plot-driven.
- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- character-ledplot-driven
- intimateepic
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- Author
- J. G. Ballard
- First published
- 1987
- Pages
- 254
- Publisher
- Collier Books, Lester & Orpen Dennys, Gollancz
- Editions
- 10
- Language
- English, und
- ISBN
- 9780708984802
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“Dreams of rivers, like scenes from a forgotten film, drift through the night, in passage between memory and desire.”
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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