The Drought: A Novel [Paperback]

An apocalyptic dystopia like no other, one whose originality and power [of] vision can be felt ( A strange and wonderful book. The most cosmically elegiac writer in literature&[N]o one reading Ballard could doubt the tidal gravity of his intellect. A very impressive book by a deeply serious writer, the originality and power of whose vision can be felt. By arranging a world drought to kill off the majority of people, [Ballard] brings his characters to a state of timeless, arid obsession with what is left of water and of their own selves&[A] sensitive, baroque study in decadence. The experience Mr. Ballard offers is mystical&It is weird; it is grotesque; it is magnificently Gothic. US