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9780374135270

Day of Creation

Day of Creation
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  • ISBN-13: 9780374135270
  • ISBN: 0374135274
  • Edition: 1
  • Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux

AUTHOR

Ballard, J. G.

SUMMARY

At Port-la-Nouvelle, on the parched terrain of central Africa, Dr. Mallory watches as his clinic fails and dreams of discovering a third Nile that will make the Sahara bloom. When there is a trickle on the local airstrip, and soon a river, the obsessed Mallory claims it as his own creation. Joined by Noon, a silent adolescent girl who as a child ran with the local guerrillas; Professor Sanger, a documentary filmmaker with a fading reputation; and Nora Warrer, the widow of a Rhodesian veterinary surgeon, the remains of whose menagerie flourish exotically amid the land's new fertility, Mallory sets out for the river's source.The Day of Creationis a metaphysical adventure story dealing with complex themes--the life-giving qualities of water, the cold eye of television, obsession, love--all set in a dream Africa, as if hallucinated by Joseph Conrad. -Angela CarterBallard, J. G. is the author of 'Day of Creation' with ISBN 9780374135270 and ISBN 0374135274.

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