Millennium People

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 Violent rebellion comes to London's middle classes in the extraordinary new novel from the author of "Cocaine Nights" and "Super Cannes". Companion piece to these two works, which are amongst his most recent successes. The hardback was chosen as Book Of The Year for 2003 in the "Daily Mail" and the "Scotsman". Zusammenfassung Violent rebellion comes to London’s middle classes.

Report

'Unsettling and subversive ... terrifically good' Sunday Times
'Terrifying and strangely haunting ... A riveting work from a writer of rare imaginative largesse, a bearer of bad tidings, unforgettably told' Daily Telegraph
'Wonderfully warped, blackly comic ... written with Ballard's customary panache, its potent mix of sex, violence and radicalism will keep his fans happy' Economist
'Ballard's instinct for the future is unnerving ... Very few writers possess this kind of intelligence: to use it with such wit is almost criminal' Independent on Sunday
'The terrifying thing about Ballard is his logic; is this science fiction or history written ahead of its time?' Len Deighton

Product details

• Authors: J. G. Ballard, James Gr. Ballard, James Gr. 10000041041 Ballard, James Graham Ballard, Iain Sinclair
• Assisted by: Iain Sinclair (Introduction)
• Publisher: Fourth Estate
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 07.06.2004
• EAN: 9780006551614
• ISBN: 978-0-00-655161-4
• No. of pages: 294
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 197 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Harper Collins Paperbacks; Flamingo; Harper Collins Paperbacks
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary