Day of Creation

by J.G. Ballard

Book Overview

On the arid, war-plagued terrain of central Africa, a manic doctor is consumed with visions of transforming the Sahara into a land of abundance. But Dr. Mallory's obsession quickly spirals dangerously... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374525773
• ISBN13: 9780374525774
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.5" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

Beautiful imagery

What I liked best about this novel was the images that Ballard was able to evoke. To be honest, I started reading it and lost interest. I picked it up some years later and was hooked. He truly can create amazing pictures in the mind unlike most writers. It is perplexing to me to see a book like The Firm getting such good reviews and being read by millions when this one is hardly even a footnote, when this book is superior in just about every way. It is not his best. I would say Crystal World, High-Rise and The Drowned World are his best, but this is a very original novel.