Cocaine Nights
J. G. BALLARD
This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.
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First published in hardback in Great Britain by Flamingo 1996
Copyright © J. G. Ballard 1996
Introduction copyright © James Lever 2014
Interview copyright © Travis Elborough 2006
Cover by Stanley Donwood.
Photography by Medemea
J.G Ballard asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work
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Table of Contents
Introduction by James Lever
2 The Fire at the Hollinger House
13 A View from the High Corniche
27 An Invitation to the Underworld
‘I COULD SUM UP the future in one word,’ J. G. Ballard said in 1994, during an interview collected in Extreme Metaphors, the indispensable anthology of Ballard’s conversation, ‘and that word is boring. The future is going to be boring.’ The gated communities of the Costa del Sol which form the backdrop of Cocaine Nights are the