Cocaine Nights

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What happens with the fire is so horrible that it makes the reader insanely curious to how it started and why. Upon arriving and talking with his sibling, Charles finds to his horror that his brother has confessed to everything, and has no interest in trying to escape his plea.

Better to go deep, I think, and start with something uncompromising like The Unlimited Dream Company. Similarly, some prostitutes arrive but Charles is stunned when he realises some of the women tottering in high heels, micro-skirts and boob tubes are wives of well-to-do residents. Ballard gives us drugs - a whole load of drugs - both prescribed and illegal, along with sociopathic violence, porno tapes, dodgy psychiatrists, a self-policed fortress-like housing complex (the Residencia Costasol), transgressive sex, and of course, satire.Monocle culture editor Robert Bound joins John and Andy to discuss JG Ballard's Spanish set thriller Cocaine Nights. At this point, notwithstanding the quality of the prose, it ceases to either convince or entertain, and therefore to reward the reader. Hollinger even proposed a loyal toast to the Queen from his balcony, before going back inside (he was, Charles is repeatedly told, patriotic but aloof and rather pompous).

The thesis is that society is sinking into a profound slump of boredom and accidie, addicted to TV while its mind vegetates. FIRST EDITION, super octavo, black heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, 329pp, VG+ (sl bruising to spine extrems, light to moderate tanning to page edges, spine sl cocked) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light chafing to covers, sl tanning to edges of flaps). The villa was hosting a big party with everyone who was anyone at the resort invited, and so there was a crowd of over 200 drinking, partying, laughing, around the villa’s massive swimming pool.Ballard’s Costa del Sol (which, deep down, I think, is the real one) is no place I’d ever like to take a holiday in. He finds it hard to believe that his brother, Frank, is capable of such an act, but he is even more baffled by the fact that his brother has.