An accident, a debilitaitng illness, the frailties of age-whatever the cause, someone you know needs a wheelchair. The next step for most people-going to the local pharmacy for a quick purchase--can ultimately be a painful one. "If you make the wrong choice, someone...

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J. G. Ballard is well established as a remarkable fantasist, and 'The Unlimited Dream Company,' a rich, seductive and challenging work, confirms his mastery of a very particular idiom…. The emergence [in the novel of a] pagan paradise from the world of motorways and supermarkets (always potent settings for Ballard) is as much a play on wish-fulfilment as an allegory of salvation. The tropical landscape [the protagonist] Blake 'dreams up' enacts Freud's analogy betwe...