Super-Cannes
Super-Cannes by J. G. Ballard, published by Flamingo in 2001, is a compelling exploration set in a high-tech business park on the Mediterranean coast. This edition spans 391 pages and is presented in English. The narrative follows Paul and Jane Sinclair as they navigate their new life in Eden-Olympia, where Jane takes on the role of a doctor for the executives residing in this ultra-modern environment. The story unfolds around a chilling mystery involving her predecessor, who committed a shocking act of violence, prompting Paul to delve deeper into the unsettling realities of their community.
Readers will encounter a blend of psychological intrigue and crime as Paul investigates the dark undercurrents of Eden-Olympia. The novel touches on themes of technological advancement and the complexities of modern life, revealing a subculture of crime that challenges the notion of work as leisure. With elements of mystery and thriller woven throughout, Super-Cannes presents a thought-provoking narrative that reflects on the societal implications of a seemingly idyllic setting.
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A high-tech business park on the Mediterranean coast is the setting for crime of the most disturbing kind in this extraordinary bestseller from the writer widely regarded as Britain’s No. 1 living novelist.
After over three decades at the forefront of modern British fiction writing, J.G. Ballard reached a new generation of readers with the bestselling ‘Cocaine Nights’ (1996) – an intriguing murder mystery that was also an unnerving vision of a society with too much time on its hands. In ‘Super-Cannes’, he delves into another closed community – where this time it is claimed that ‘work is the new leisure’.
A disturbing mystery awaits Paul and Jane Sinclair when they arrive in Eden-Olympia, a high-tech business park in the hills above Cannes. Jane is to work as a doctor for the executives who live in this ultra-modern workers’ paradise. But what caused her apparently sane predecessor to set out one morning and murder ten people in a shooting spree that made headlines around the world? As Paul investigates his new surroundings, he begins to uncover a thriving subculture of crime that is spiralling out of control.
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