![]() ![]() ![]() Most importantly, with its fragmented form, its Protean characters, its deep-seated ambiguity and its non-narrative structure, The Atrocity Exhibition was deemed unfilmable. A revised, annotated, illustrated and expanded edition (four extra stories) was published by Re/Search in 1990, and has since become the standard version. It was then published in the US in 1972 by Grove Press under a different title, Love and Napalm: Export USA. This anti-novel has had a complicated publication history: all 15 of the (linked) stories that make up its chapters had already been published separately over the previous four years in America, Doubleday & Company pulled their scheduled 1970 publication and destroyed all their printed copies over fears of lawsuits from celebrities named in the stories. Ballard’s The Atrocity Exhibition was first published by Jonathan Cape in the UK. ![]()
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