Millennium people
Ballard, J. G., 1930-20092014
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When a bomb goes off at Heathrow it looks like just another random act of violence to psychologist David Markham. But then he discovers that his ex-wife Laura is among the victims. Acting on police suspicions, he starts to investigate London's fringe protest movements, falling in with a shadowy group based in the comfortable Thameside estate of Chelsea Marina. Led by a charismatic doctor, the group aims to rouse the docile middle classes to anger and violence, to free them from both the self-imposed burdens of civic responsibility and the trappings of a consumer society -- private schools, foreign nannies, health insurance and overpriced housing. Markham, seeking the truth behind Laura's death, is swept up in a campaign that spirals rapidly out of control. Every certainty in his life is questioned as the cornerstones of middle England become targets and growing panic grips the capital ...
Main title:
Millennium people / J.G. Ballard ; introduction by Iain Sinclair.
Author:
Ballard, J. G., 1930-2009, authorSinclair, Iain, 1943-, author of introduction, etcBennett, Vanora, 1962-, interviewer
Work:
Imprint:
London : Fourth Estate, 2014.©2003
Collation:
xix, 298 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Interview by Vanora Bennett, 2014.First published in Great Britain by Flamingo in 2003.
ISBN:
9780006551614 (pbk)9780006551614 (paperback)
Dewey class:
823.914
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
661677
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