In this revised edition, Ballard has added extensive annotation that help to unlock many of the mysteries of one of the most prophetic, enigmatic and original works of the late twentieth century. Finally, through the black, perverse magic of violence he transcends his psychic turmoil to find the key to a bizarre new sexuality. Seeking his sanity, he casts himself in a number of roles: H-bomber pilot, presidential assassin, crash victim, psychopath. Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe, dead astronauts and car-crash victims as he traverses the screaming wastes of nervous breakdown.
The central character’s dreams are haunted by images of John F. The irrational, all-pervading violence of the modern world is the subject of this extraordinary tour de force. This edition includes explanatory notes from the author. Ballard, the acclaimed author of ‘Crash’ and ‘Super-Cannes’. Ballard said "it was an attempt for me to make sense of that tragic event.A prophetic and experimental masterpiece by J. With titles such as "Plans for the Assassination of Jacqueline Kennedy", "Love and Napalm: Export USA", and " Why I Want to Fuck Ronald Reagan", and by constantly associating the Kennedy assassination with a sexual or sporting event, the work has maintained controversy, especially in the United States, where some considered it a slur on John F.
There is some debate on whether the book is an experimental novel with chapters or a collection of linked stories. The edition with annotations is now standard.Īll of the 1970 book originally appeared as stories in magazines before being collected.
Ī revised large format paperback edition, with annotations by the author and illustrations by Phoebe Gloeckner, was issued by RE/Search in 1990. It was made into a film by Jonathan Weiss in 1998. Thus, the first US edition was published in 1972 by Grove Press under the title Love and Napalm: Export USA. personally cancelled the publication and had the copies destroyed, fearing legal action from some of the celebrities depicted in the book. After a 1970 edition by Doubleday & Company had already been printed, Nelson Doubleday Jr. The book was originally published in the UK in 1970 by Jonathan Cape.
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