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The Unlimited Dream Company (Paladin Books) (Paperback)

by J.G. Ballard (Author)
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  • Paperback: 224 pages
  • Publisher: Flamingo; New edition edition (6 Jun 1990)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0586089950
  • ISBN-13: 978-0586089958
  • Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 12.8 x 1.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 84,015 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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'A remarkable piece of invention, a flight from the world of the familiar and the real into the exotic universe of dream and desire!dense and erotic and magical, a pleasure to read.' malcolm bradbury, New York Times 'Extraordinary!there is no doubt of the intensity and originality of the imagination that conceived the scenes of Shepperton transformed into a paradise!far beyond the scope of most novelists.' Spectator 'A remarkable fantasist!Ballard's eloquence is as lush as the flowering vines he hangs from his multi-storey garages.' Observer


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From the author of the Sunday Times bestseller 'Cocaine Nights' comes an acclaimed backlist title -- in which suburban London is transformed into an exotic dreamworld -- now reissued in new cover style. When a light aircraft crashes into the Thames at Shepperton, the young pilot who struggles to the surface minutes later seems to have come back from the dead. Within hours everything in the dormitory suburb is strangely transformed. Vultures invade the rooftops, luxuriant tropical vegetation overruns the quiet avenues, and the local inhabitants are propelled by the young man's urgent visions through ecstatic sexual celebrations towards an apocalyptic climax.
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5.0 out of 5 stars The dream of the Sun, 2 Feb 2001
By cfitz@webzone.net (Tulsa, Oklahoma) - See all my reviews
This strange, hauntingly beautiful book finds author Ballard mytholigizing his hometown of Shepperton, England. Blake, the protagonist, has stolen a light aircraft but soon crashes it into the Thames. Emerging miraculously from the submerged wreckage of the plane, he is embraced by the citizens of this small community as if risen from the dead. He soon finds himself vested with messianic powers which he uses to transform Shepperton into a surreal paradise. Cryptically yet powerfully written, The Unlimited Dream Company further justifies the superlatives bestowed upon the work of this fine, underheralded author.
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars impressionistic dream painting, 19 May 2001
By Neil Ford "Neil" (London) - See all my reviews
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An incredible impressionistic dream painting which soars by with a grace and spendour other writers fail to apsire to. Ballard explorers strong ethical and religeous themes in his genetic re-engineering of Shepperton, styled with beguilingly taught yet descriptive prose. Exactly what Ballard is driving at is tough to decipher but the writing is so addictive and the narrative so packed with subtle allusions, shifts and metaphor its a novel which carries you triumphantly to the finish. The more Ballard I read the more I am in awe of the man's genius and incredible visions of contemporary society. Ballard is so good once youv've read one you want to read the rest !
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5.0 out of 5 stars Sexual Religious Myth, 6 Nov 2000
By fisher@eon.dk (Copenhagen, Denmark) - See all my reviews
This book is for everyone who likes the magnificent style of Ballard. We have a man in center, who starts of trying to kill his girlfriend, then escapes in a stolen plane. It crashes in a small community. He should have died, but didn't, or did he? It changes him into a pure sexual being. A sexual being that is closer to God, than man. He can now fly, and flying is something man has craved for ever since, he saw birds freedom for the first time. The community want him, and he wants them. Fantastic.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Ballard's Weirdest
The books is wildly oneiric. It's a dream, it's a vision, it's a display of inexhaustible surrealistic imagination. Read more
Published 11 months ago by Vittorio Caffè

5.0 out of 5 stars outstanding
As with the majority of J G Ballard's novels, 'The Unlimited Dream Company' gleans it's real power by the final sentence. Read more
Published on 10 Jul 2006 by Mr. P. Cooper

4.0 out of 5 stars Myths for suberbia
Ballard tells the tale of a crashed wanna be pilot who become the local god of Sheperton.

A book about film, acid and the odd myth resonaces in modern UK wanna be USA... Read more

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