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The day of creation

by J G Ballard

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"At Port-la-Nouvelle, on the parched terrain of central Africa, Dr. Mallory watches as his clinic fails and dreams of discovering a third Nile that will make the Sahara bloom. When there is a trickle on the local airstrip, and soon a river, the obsessed Mallory claims it as his own creation. Joined by Noon, a silent adolescent girl who as a child ran with the local guerrillas; Professor Sanger, a documentary filmmaker with a fading reputation; and Nora Warrer, the widow of a Rhodesian veterinary surgeon, the remains of whose menagerie flourish exotically amid the land's new fertility, Mallory sets out for the river's source. The Day of Creation is a metaphysical adventure story dealing with complex themes--the life-giving qualities of water, the cold eye of television, obsession, love--all set in a dream Africa, as if hallucinated by Joseph Conrad." -Angela Carter

Synopsis:

At Port-la-Nouvelle, on the parched terrain of central Africa, Dr. Mallory watches as his clinic fails and dreams of discovering a third Nile that will make the Sahara bloom. When there is a trickle on the local airstrip, and soon a river, the obsessed Mallory claims it as his own creation and sets out for the rivers source.

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About the Author

J. G. Ballard is the author of more than twenty novels and short-story collections. He lives in Shepperton, England.

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Product Details

ISBN:

9780374135270

Author:

Ballard, J G

Publisher:

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Author:

Ballard, J. G.

Location:

New York :

Subject:

Physicians

Subject:

Psychological fiction

Subject:

Water-supply

Subject:

Sahara

Subject:

Africa, central

Subject:

Physicians -- Africa -- Fiction.

Subject:

General Fiction

Copyright:

1987

Edition Number:

1st American ed.

Edition Description:

Trade Cloth

Series Volume:

VII.6, T.1-2

Publication Date:

1988

Binding:

Paperback

Grade Level:

General/trade

Illustrations:

Yes

Pages:

256

Dimensions:

8.25 x 5.50 in

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At Port-la-Nouvelle, on the parched terrain of central Africa, Dr. Mallory watches as his clinic fails and dreams of discovering a third Nile that will make the Sahara bloom. When there is a trickle on the local airstrip, and soon a river, the obsessed Mallory claims it as his own creation and sets out for the rivers source.