Vermilion Sands

BALLARD, J.G. Vermilion Sands.

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BALLARD, J.G. Vermilion Sands. London: Jonathan Cape. 1973.

8vo. Original light blue cloth with title lettering in gilt, Pictorial wraparound dust jacket by Brian Knight, pp. [xi], 208, fine.

First edition with authors signature to title page.

Vermilion Sands is described as a "latter day Palm Springs", home to a cohort of forgotten film stars and lost bohemians. Here is a place where the automated has successfully crushed human creativity; "dial-a-poem computers" have usurped the poet, a prediction of our contemporary dependancies on the virtual. As the burb states, it is "a lair for…hangers-on and malignant obsessions- a place where sensitive pigments paint portraits of their mistresses in a grotestque parody of art; where prima donna plants are programmed to sing operatic arias…". It is a place where the nightmare is intensified by the horrifying and unforgiving landscape that Ballard is so notorious for creating.

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