The Day of Creation

Informationen zum Autor J. G. Ballard was born in 1930 in Shanghai, where his father was a businessman. After internment in a civilian prison camp, he and his family returned to England in 1946. He published his first novel, The Drowned World , in 1961. His 1984 bestseller Empire of the Sun won the Guardian Fiction Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. His memoir Miracles of Life was published in 2008. J. G. Ballard died in 2009. Klappentext 'Classic Ballard. Mesmerising. No one writes with such haunting impact' William Boyd Zusammenfassung ‘Classic Ballard. Mesmerising. No one writes with such haunting impact’ William Boyd

Product details

• Authors: J. G. Ballard, J.g. Ballard
• Assisted by: Joshua Cohen (Introduction)
• Publisher: Fourth Estate
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 04.09.2006
• EAN: 9780007227891
• ISBN: 978-0-00-722789-1
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 198 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary