Cocaine Nights

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Ballard has all this, of course, but he is also interested in exploring the future and the future for him is how to keep these early retirees amused. Now, drawing on the beguiling storytelling skills behind compelling novels like Empire of the Sun and Rushing to Paradise, and the imagination that produced such startlingly original works as The Crystal World, Crash and High-Rise, he has created Cocaine Nights – at once an engrossing mystery and an unnerving vision of a society coming to terms with a life of unlimited leisure.

For all ebook purchases, you will be prompted to create an account or login with your existing HarperCollins username and password. As we stood together I placed my hand on her breast, my index finger following the blue vein that rose to the surface of her sunburnt skin before descending into the warm deeps below her nipple. The whole resort have been taken in, if Charles takes too long to join in it feels like he's being convinced through rational arguments. It’s all as slick and stylised as the dialogue in a Noel Coward play, mingled with a pleasant stream of sub-Wildean paradoxes. While I did find that some of writing could have used a better edit (I lost count, for example, of how many times Cocaine Nights uses the obscure adjective ‘louche’), there can be no doubt that Ballard had his own unique and engaging voice.A similar sense of bafflement surrounds descriptions of the fateful fire which killed the Hollingers. And that’s before you get to the dire condition of the underclass, which I was reading about recently. Money-rich, time-poor is an expression which arose in Britain at the end of the 20th century to describe groups of people who, whilst having a high disposable income through well-paid employment, have relatively little leisure time as a result. The club manager, Frank Prentice, pleads guilty to charges of murder – yet not even the police believe him. With all the interesting atmosphere the book brings, the reveal is pretty much spelled out in subvert ways about midway through, and this is why I give it a lower rating.

Here on Costa del Sol nothing would ever happen again, and the people of the pueblos were already ghosts of themselves. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions. Enseguida se da cuenta de que, al contrario que la Costa Azul o la de Liguria, “la Costa del Sol carecía hasta de los rudimentos de cierto encanto escénico o arquitectónico (…) Sotogrande era un pueblo sin centro ni suburbios y parecía poco más que un terreno de campos de golf y piscinas dispersas”. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. You miss the whole basic psychology of the piece -- the relationship of children and parents and individuals and society.Bobby Crawford, the tennis pro at the club, nearly stupefied with boredom may be the spark who shatters the peaceful tranquility. The narrator's brother, Frank, has indicated that he will plead guilty to criminal charges of arson and murder. What happens with the fire is so horrible that it makes the reader insanely curious to how it started and why. The novel is written in Ballard’s trademark style—the vast, sweeping diction, the plumy vowel usage, the grand blasts of description. While the story is delightfully clever and sociopathic, the book does feel a little slow in some of the middle sections.