Hello America

A terrifying vision of the future from one of our most renowned writers - J G Ballard, author of ?Empire of the Sun? and ?Crash?.Following the energy crisis of the late twentieth-century America has been abandoned. Now, a century later, a small group of European explorers returns to the deserted continent. But America is unrecognisable - the Bering Strait has been dammed and the whole continent has become a desert, populated by isolated natives and the bizarre remnants of a disintegrated culture.The expedition sets off from Manhattan on a cross-continent journey, through Holiday Inns and abandoned theme parks. They will uncover a shocking new power in the heart of Las Vegas in this unique vision of our world transformed.

Softcover. English. HarperPerennial. 2008. ISBN: 9780007287031. 240 pp. Good. Book No: