by J. G. Ballard · Flamingo · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780006550648
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In the upmarket coastal resort of Estrella de Mar, Spain, a fire claims the lives of five people. Frank Prentice, the manager of the Club Nautico, pleads guilty, but even the police don't believe him. His brother Charles arrives to investigate and uncovers a hidden world of crime, drugs, and illicit sex behind the facade of the British retiree community. This novel by J.G. Ballard is a fascinating mystery and an unnerving vision of a society facing a life of unlimited leisure.
James Graham Ballard was an English novelist and short-story writer, satirist and essayist known for psychologically provocative works of fiction that explore the relations between human psychology, technology, sex and mass media. Ballard first became associated with New Wave science fiction for post-apocalyptic novels such as The Drowned World (1962). He later courted controversy with the short-story collection The Atrocity Exhibition (1970), which includes the 1968 story "Why I Want to Fuck Ronald Reagan", and later the novel Crash (1973), a story about car-crash fetishists.
