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The always-amazing, ever-disturbing J.G. Ballard is considered a difficult writer, a poet of the dystopian future whose work has been described as bizarre and visionary. His new novel, Super-Cannes (Picador USA, $24.95, 392 pp), similar to its immediate predecessor, Cocaine Nights (Counterpoint Press, $15 paperback, 336 pp), is more accessible, however. Both books, in some ways mirror images of one another, rework the traditional "whodunit" into philosophical critiques of society, evolving from entertainments into serious examinations of modern life--or the anomie that passes for it.
In Cocaine Nights, for example, protagonist Charles Prentice, a travel writer, is summoned to the Costa del Sol in southern Spain, where his brother, Frank, has been charged with five counts of murder. In fact, Frank has confessed to firebombing a house in the resort known as Estrella de Mar, where he worked as manager of a club. But Charles is convinced of his brother's innocence, so much so that he launches his own investigation into the horrible deaths. The more he learns about life in the staid retirement community,...
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