A Superior Death

By J.G. Ballard

Book Overview

Barr's Track of the Cat was hailed as one of the best mysteries of the year (USA Today). In her new mystery--written with an environmentalist's feel for the wilderness--Barr sends Ranger Anna Pigeon to Michigan's Isle Royale National Park, where she encounters a body in Lake Superior's deep water.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0399139168
• ISBN13: 9780399139161
• Release Date: March 1994
• Publisher: G. P. Putnam's Sons
• Length: 303 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 5.8" x 1.0" x 8.8"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 12 and higher

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.