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Author of the Month: J. G. Ballard
James Graham Ballard was born in Shanghai, China in 1930. His recent novels are British bestsellers
Cocaine Nights (1996)
and
Super-Cannes (2000).
Ballard's work is a unique fusion of action adventure and science fiction with elements of psychiatry, surrealism and postmodernism wedded to pulp narratives. He is best known as the author of Empire of the Sun (1984),
a novel about his wartime experiences in China, and
Crash (1973),
a disturbing novel about the erotic potential of car
wrecks.
His latest book is something of a departure for Ballard. It is a memoir, a fascinating account of a unique writer's extraordinary life.
Miracles of Life opens and closes in Shanghai,
the city where he was born, and where he spent most of World War II interned with his family in a Japanese concentration camp. In the intervening chapters, Ballard recounts the experiences which would
fundamentally shape his writing, while simultaneously providing a striking social analysis of the fragmented post-war Britain that lies behind many of his novels.
Atrocity Exhibition - trade paperbackBy J. G. Ballard - $17.95
The irrational, all-pervading violence of the modern world is the subject of this extraordinary tour de force. The central character’s dreams are haunted by images of John F. Kennedy and Marilyn Mo...
Day of Creation - trade paperbackBy J. G. Ballard - $17.95
Ballard's demented narrator, Dr. Mallory, believes he can fertilize the Sahara with a river he has "created" in a desolate, warring region of Africa. "The river and I were one," he announces as he ...
Empire of the Sun - trade paperbackBy J. G. Ballard - $19.95
Based on J. G. Ballard’s own childhood, this is the extraordinary account of a boy’s life in Japanese-occupied wartime Shanghai – a mesmerising, hypnotically compelling novel of war, of starvation ...
High Rise - trade paperbackBy J. G. Ballard - $17.95
The third novel in Ballard's loose trilogy examining technological culture. A man moves into a relatively new apartment tower block, one of three in an enormous complex. As the apartments are rente...
Kingdom Come - trade paperbackBy J. G. Ballard - $17.95
Richard Pearson, unemployed advertising executive and life-long rebel, is driving out to Brooklands, a motorway town on the M25. A few weeks earlier his father was fatally wounded at the Metro-Cent...
Millennium People - trade paperbackBy J. G. Ballard - $19.95
Violent rebellion comes to London's middle classes in the extraordinary new novel from the author of Cocaine Nights and Super–Cannes. When a bomb goes off at Heathrow it looks like just anot...
Super Cannes - trade paperbackBy J G Ballard - $17.95
After over three decades at the forefront of modern British fiction writing, J.G. Ballard reached a new generation of readers with the bestselling Cocaine Nights (1996) – an intriguing murder...
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