Record Number |
742505 |
ISBN |
9780007232475 (paperback) |
0007232470 (paperback) |
Author |
Ballard, J. G., 1930-2009 author. |
Title |
Kingdom come / J.G. Ballard. |
Publisher/Date |
London, United Kingdom : Fourth Estate, 2014. |
©2006. |
Pagination etc. |
286 pages ; 20 cm. |
Contents note |
Originally published: London: Fourth Estate, 2006. |
Summary Note |
Richard Pearson, unemployed advertising executive and life-long rebel, is driving out to Brooklands, a motorway town on the M25. A few weeks earlier his father was fatally wounded at the Metro-Centre, a vast shopping mall in this apparently peaceful town, when a deranged mental patient opened fire on a crowd of shoppers. |
Subject |
Consumption (Economics) -- Fiction |
Dystopias -- Fiction |
Shopping centers -- Fiction |
Shelf Location |
F BALL |