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In una Provenza sempre più tecnologica, i sogni idilliaci possono trasformarsi negli incubi peggiori. Eden-Olympia è un complesso residenziale in Costa Azzurra. Ospita i dirigenti delle più potenti multinazionali e vi lavorano quasi diecimila persone. Jane Sinclair giunge in questo paradiso per un incarico da pediatra, accompagnata dal marito Paul. Mentre Jane si dedica con impegno alla professione, Paul si fa prendere dal sospetto. Perché il predecessore di Jane ha ucciso a fucilate dieci persone? Perché di tanto in tanto qualcuno dei residenti sparisce e se ne perde ogni traccia? Perché il dottor Penrose, lo psichiatra, ripete che Eden-Olympia sia un "laboratorio per il nuovo millennio", dove tutto è possibile?
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- Pagine: 372
- Data di uscita: 08-10-2014
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Remake/Remodel/Reboot "Super-Cannes" seems to be a reboot of Ballard's previous novel, "Cocaine Nights". When I finished it, I re-read my review of "Cocaine Nights" and was surprised at how much of it could be applied equally to this work, with only minimal adjustment. "CN" is set in an expatriate
Eden-Olympia is a multinational hi-tech business park near Cannes in the south of France. It’s a city within itself, and all the workers at these big companies, executives etc live there with its own security , medical staff and facilities, everything for a luxurious life. Paul Sinclair and his doct Leggi tutto
One of Ballard's better novels, right up there with THE UNLIMITED DREAM COMPANY. A Surrealist neo-noir/murder mystery, like THE LONG GOODBYE narrated by Salvador Dali rather than Philip Marlowe.
"The sweat and stench of violence quickened the air and refocused the world." Ballard returns to typically Ballardian themes - violence, psychopathy, an alien psychology, sex. It almost reads like a more controlled, and therefor less convincing counterpart to High-Rise . There's a mystery, but it's not Leggi tutto
J.G. Ballard established that architecture can drive you in crazy in High Rise, his 1975 novel in which residents of a new, luxury apartment tower degenerate into tribal warfare. Super-Cannes suggests that the proper response to the new, gated, planned business and residential communities he saw des Leggi tutto
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