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Super-Cannes

J. G. Ballard

2000391 pagesabout 6–9 hours
2000
first published
  • 2000Flamingo · 391 pages · ENGISBN 9780002258470
  • 2001Flamingo · ENGISBN 9780007718818
  • 2001Picador USA · 391 pages · ENGISBN 9780312284190
  • 2002Picador · 400 pages · ENGISBN 9780312306090

In the hills above Cannes, a European elite has gathered in the business-park Eden-Olympia, a closed society that offers its privileged residents luxury homes, private doctors, private security forces, their own psychiatrists, and other conveniences required by the modern businessman. The book's protagonist, Paul, quits his job as an editor and moves to Eden-Olympia with his wife Jane when she is offered a job there as a pediatrician. At first glance, Eden-Olympia seems the ideal workers' paradise, but beneath its glittering, glass-wall surface, all is not well.

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Character focusTwo hander

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Romance levelCentral

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ThemesLove
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