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    <![CDATA[&lt;div&gt;&quot;At Port-la-Nouvelle, on the parched terrain of central Africa, Dr. Mallory watches as his clinic fails and dreams of discovering a third Nile that will make the Sahara bloom. When there is a trickle on the local airstrip, and soon a river, the obsessed Mallory claims it as his own creation. Joined by Noon, a silent adolescent girl who as a child ran with the local guerrillas; Professor Sanger, a documentary filmmaker with a fading reputation; and Nora Warrer, the widow of a Rhodesian veterinary surgeon, the remains of whose menagerie flourish exotically amid the land's new fertility, Mallory sets out for the river's source. <em>The Day of Creation</em> is a metaphysical adventure story dealing with complex themes--the life-giving qualities of water, the cold eye of television, obsession, love--all set in a dream Africa, as if hallucinated by Joseph Conrad.&quot; -Angela Carter<br/>&lt;/div&gt;]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Excelent writing, mediocre plot]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A little bit Heart of Darkness, a little bit Robinson Crusoe, a little bit Huckleberry Finn—even some Lolita.  References to myth and the “dream-time” resonate with the work of Mircea Eliade.  In addition to the narrative of the African adventure, there is a recurrent critique of television.  <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18771639">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A more hallucinatory Heart of Darkness. Ballard uses post colonial Africa as a place to stage the decay of our western structures.  The &quot;other&quot; is Ballards truth.  His future is one where western structure has decayed, and we are unveiled as the animals we truly are.  Delightfully twisted....]]></body>
    
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