Day of Creation

by J.G. Ballard

Book Overview

At Port-la-Nouvelle, on the parched terrain of central Africa, Dr. Mallory watches as his clinic fails and dreams of discovering a third Nile that will make the Sahara bloom. When there is a trickle... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374525773
• ISBN13: 9780374525774
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.5" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

Beautiful imagery

What I liked best about this novel was the images that Ballard was able to evoke. To be honest, I started reading it and lost interest. I picked it up some years later and was hooked. He truly can create amazing pictures in the mind unlike most writers. It is perplexing to me to see a book like The Firm getting such good reviews and being read by millions when this one is hardly even a footnote, when this book is superior in just about every way. It is not his best. I would say Crystal World, High-Rise and The Drowned World are his best, but this is a very original novel.