A prophetic and experimental masterpiece by J. G. Ballard, the acclaimed author of 'Crash' and 'Super-Cannes', featuring an introduction by Hari Kunzru. The human organism is an atrocity exhibition at which he is an unwilling spectator ... As the protagonist spirals into the depths of a nervous breakdown, his dreams are haunted by images of John F. Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe, astronauts and car-crash victims. A kaleidoscopic scrapbook of mass culture, ...
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A prophetic and experimental masterpiece by J. G. Ballard, the acclaimed author of 'Crash' and 'Super-Cannes', featuring an introduction by Hari Kunzru. The human organism is an atrocity exhibition at which he is an unwilling spectator ... As the protagonist spirals into the depths of a nervous breakdown, his dreams are haunted by images of John F. Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe, astronauts and car-crash victims. A kaleidoscopic scrapbook of mass culture, his mind fixates on the consumerism of the modern world - a hallucinatory obsession with celebrity, media, sex and violence. With the media infiltrating every corner of our psyche, have the lines blurred between fiction and reality?
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Add this copy of Atrocity Exhibition to cart. $34.00, very good condition, Sold by Margaret Taylor Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from santa cruz, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1990 by V/Search.
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Gloeckner, Phoebe. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. some pink hi-lighting pgs 19-27. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 140 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade.
Add this copy of The Atrocity Exhibition, Revised Edition (Re-Search to cart. $44.40, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Hialeah, FL, UNITED STATES, published 1990 by Re/Search Publications.
Add this copy of The Atrocity Exhibition. New Revised Edition to cart. $45.00, like new condition, Sold by Quercus Rare Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Chico, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1990 by RE/SEARCH Publications.
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Fine. No Jacket. Although not scarce, usually found in later printings, this is a Fine copy of the First Edition Thus of the Trade Edition (full number line), reprinted with Ballard's notations, including four new stories. "Revised, expanded, annotated, illustrated edition." Large softcover; in an archival plastic protector. Size: 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall.
Add this copy of The Atrocity Exhibition, Revised Edition (Re-Search to cart. $94.11, new condition, Sold by GridFreed rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from North Las Vegas, NV, UNITED STATES, published 1990 by Re/Search Publications.
Add this copy of The Atrocity Exhibition, Revised Edition (Re-Search to cart. $109.50, new condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Hialeah, FL, UNITED STATES, published 1990 by Re/Search Publications.
