![]() ![]() The US 1972 Grove Press 'Napalm' edition is only worth about $50. Basically Doubleday pulped the book due to what it perceived as obscene and inflammatory content. The publication history is best told by Mike Holliday at the definitive J. The first English-language publication was in the U.K. Most of the stories that make up the book had been originally published in the late 1960s in SF magazines (which, by the way, are rarely of value) others appeared in regular journals like Encounter, Transatlantic Review, etc., - also small change to buy. A 'stopper' for any determined completist. I have chosen his suppressed novel The Atrocity Exhibition because it was a breakthrough book in terms of shock value and also because it is his most valuable book by a long chalk. ![]() Certainly in terms of knowing what was really going on (and often well before it happens) he was the supreme figure- his novels and short stories have demonstrably foreshadowed global warming, environmental disasters, the grotesque rise of celebrity culture, science parks, 'retail therapy', even the death of Princess Diana ( Crash). Will Self claimed (with a few caveats) that JGB was the most significant post war novelist. ![]() ![]() Cape, London & Doubleday New York, 1970.Ī re-post in hommage to and in memory of J.G. ![]()
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