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- <text id=89TT3004>
- <title>
- Nov. 13, 1989: Suburban Sleep
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Nov. 13, 1989 Arsenio Hall
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BOOKS, Page 112
- Suburban Sleep
- </hdr><body>
- <p>By Paul Gray
- </p>
- <qt> <l>RUNNING WILD</l>
- <l>by J.G. Ballard Farrar,</l>
- <l>Straus & Giroux; 104 pages; $12.95</l>
- </qt>
- <p> Something horrible, instantly dubbed by the British
- tabloids as the Pangbourne Massacre, has occurred in an elegant,
- exclusive development west of London: 32 adult residents of the
- tasteful new houses have been murdered, and 13 children have
- disappeared. Baffled investigators, ranging from the local
- police up to the Home Office and Scotland Yard, eventually call
- on Dr. Richard Greville, a psychiatrist who specializes in
- criminal behavior. Running Wild is his report.
- </p>
- <p> It is also the latest novel by J.G. Ballard, a world-class
- writer of science fiction (The Day of Creation) and
- autobiography (Empire of the Sun). Old Ballard fans may regret
- the brevity of this latest installment, but they, along with new
- readers, are certain to solve the mystery before Dr. Greville
- does. As he explains, "My failure to recognize the obvious, in
- common with almost everyone else concerned, is a measure of the
- true mystery of the Pangbourne Massacre." In other words, as
- Ballard has suggested in other tales, the sleep of suburbia
- produces monsters.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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