The Day of Creation - Ballard, J. G.

The Day of Creation - Ballard, J. G.

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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 Creation is 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 Carter.

Hardcover. English. Gollancz. 1987, 2nd impression. 254 pp. In good condition with edgeworn dw, foxing on end papers. Book No: 1275

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