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作       者:J. G. Ballard,Deborah Levy

出  版  社:Fourth Estate

出版时间:2008-09-04

字       数:44.2万

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With a new introduction by Deborah Levy and a striking new cover design by the artist Stanley Donwood, Ballard’s final novel sees consumerism evolve into something even more sinister. A gunman opens fire in a shopping mall. Not a terrorist, apparently, but a madman with a rifle. Or not, as he is mysteriously (and quickly) set free without charge. One of the victims is the father of Richard Pearson, unemployed advertising executive and life-long rebel. Now he is driving out to Brooklands, the apparently peaceful town on the M25 which has at its heart the very shiny shoppers’ paradise where the shooting happened – the Metro-Centre. Then the main suspect is released – thanks to the testimony of self-styled pillars of the community like the doctor who treated Richard’s father on his deathbed. Richard, determined to unravel the mystery, starts to believe that something deeply sinister lurks behind the pristine facades of the labyrinthine mall, its 24-hour cable TV and sports club…
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Title Page

Copyright

Introduction by Deborah Levy

Contents

Part I

Chapter One: The St George’s Cross

Chapter Two: The Homecoming

Chapter Three: The Riot

Chapter Four: The Resistance Movement

Chapter Five: The Metro-Centre

Chapter Six: Going Home

Chapter Seven: Snakes And Ladders

Chapter Eight: Accidents And Emergencies

Chapter Nine: The Beach At The Holiday Inn

Chapter Ten: Street People

Chapter Eleven: A Hard Night

Chapter Twelve: Neon Palaces

Chapter Thirteen: Duncan Christie

Chapter Fourteen: Towards A Willed Madness

Chapter Fifteen: The Prisoner In The Tower

Chapter Sixteen: The Bomb Attack

Chapter Seventeen: The Geometry Of The Crowd

Chapter Eighteen: A Failed Revolution

Chapter Nineteen: The Need To Understand

Chapter Twenty: The Racing Circuit

Chapter Twenty One: A New Politics

Part II

Chapter Twenty Two: The Trenchcoat Hero

Chapter Twenty Three: The Women’s Refuge

Chapter Twenty Four: A Fascist State

Chapter Twenty Five: Lonely, Lost, Angry

Chapter Twenty Six: A Bullet In The Hand

Chapter Twenty Seven: An Anxious Intermission

Chapter Twenty Eight: The Old Man’s Quest

Chapter Twenty Nine: The Stricken City

Chapter Thirty: Assassination

Chapter Thirty One: ‘Defend The Dome!’

Chapter Thirty Two: The Republic Of The Metro-Centre

Part III

Chapter Thirty Three: The Consumer Life

Chapter Thirty Four: Work Makes You Free

Chapter Thirty Five: Normality

Chapter Thirty Six: Shrines And Altars

Chapter Thirty Seven: Prayers And Wool-Wash Cycles

Chapter Thirty Eight: Tell Him

Chapter Thirty Nine: The Last Stand

Chapter Forty: Exit Strategies

Chapter Forty One: A Solar Cult

PAPERING OVER THE CRACKS: J. G. Ballard talks to Sarah O’Reilly

REMAKING THE WORLD by J. G. Ballard

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