The Ultimate Parody of American culture
BALLARD, J.G. Hello America. London:Jonathan Cape.1981.
8vo. Original beige cloth with black title lettering to spine and brown endpapers, Illustrated wraparound dust jacket designed by Bill Botten, pp. [vi], 224, Minimal bumping to corners of front board, otherwise fine.
First edition
"It is America alright, but America as never before" signals the blurb of this first edition. Set in North America in the 22nd century, we encounter a world made uninhabitable as a consequence of political breakdown and ecological collapse. A parody of American culture, "Frank Sinatra, Charles Manson and forty-six presidents of the United states play their part in J.G Ballards tribute to American dreams past and future" (blurb); another startling example of Ballard's increasingly recognisable dystopias.
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