Friday's Forgotten Books: Cocaine Nights by J.G. Ballard
In J.G. Ballard's 1996 novel ,Cocaine Nights, Englishman Frank Prentice is in a Spanish jail charged with arson and murder. Despite the fact that he's almost certainly innocent of these crimes he has confessed to them.
The narrator of Cocaine Nights is Frank's brother Charles, a travel writer-'Crossing frontiers is my profession'.He turns up at the super exclusive resort of Estrella de Mar -a gated, high security, retirement home for the super rich - in order to find out what happened. Prentice immerses himself in Estrella de Mar and it doesn't take long for Charles' digging to reveal a world of drugs, pornography and petty crime and more.
There are more Forgotten Books at Patti Abbott's blog here
And there's a beut of a post about Ballard at Mullholland Books.
7 comments:
I'm actually reading this right now, courtesy of Cameron Ashley, the world's biggest Ballard fan.
Thanks for this Paul; I've seen this and picked it up to browse many times but never bought a copy. I may have to put that right now!
Kind regards.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/jgb/?yguid=10568222
The Ballard discussion list on YahooGroups.
Hey Paul.....sounds like I may just have to give this a try. Thanks!
Just added this to my TBR pile. Definitely sounds like a great read
I've read all of Ballard's work more than once and he is one of my favorites. I can't believe he has been silenced but we can still reread his great fiction.
It's a cracking book. As is Super-Cannes...next weeks FFB.
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