The Ultimate Parody of American culture
BALLARD, J. G. Hello America. London:Jonathan Cape.1981.
8vo. Original beige cloth with black lettering to spine, brown endpapers, dust jacket designed by Bill Botten, pp. [vi], 224, minimal bumping to corners of front board, wrapper lightly faded to spine, a near fine copy
First edition.
"It is America alright, but America as never before". 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. Ballard's tribute to American dreams past and future" (from the jacket); another startling example of Ballard's increasingly recognisable dystopias.
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