Ballard said "it was an attempt for me to make sense of that tragic event. 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. From what I remember, I have always had a polarising experience with his books. personally cancelled the publication and had the copies destroyed, fearing legal action from some of the celebrities depicted in the book. Its been a while since Ive read some JG Ballard. 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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