War Fever

War Fever
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Publisher : Macmillan
Total Pages : 187
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ISBN-10 : 9781466856646
ISBN-13 : 1466856645
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Book Synopsis War Fever by : J. G. Ballard

Download or read book War Fever written by J. G. Ballard and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A war-ravaged Beirut is the setting for the title story of this visionary collection by J. G. Ballard, a tale in which a young street fighter inadvertently discovers how to bring an end to the bloodshed only to find that his solution is all too effective as far as some supposedly neutral observers are concerned. Other stories in War Fever feature an assassination plot against an American astronaut, the leader of an authoritarian religious movement; a man who is destroyed by a car crash and resolves never to leave his apartment again; and the survivor of a toxic-waste ship wrecked on a deserted Caribbean island.


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