The Atrocity Exhibition

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 A prophetic and experimental masterpiece by J. G. Ballard, the acclaimed author of 'Crash' and 'Super-Cannes', featuring an introduction by Hari Kunzru. Zusammenfassung A prophetic and experimental masterpiece by J. G. Ballard, the acclaimed author of ‘Crash’ and ‘Super-Cannes’, featuring an introduction by Hari Kunzru.

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'The zenith of the experimental novel in English' Will Self
'Brilliant and unnerving ... Ballard is a writer with talent to burn' The Times
'These stories - "condensed novels", Ballard has called them - are a high-water mark in English experimental fiction' New York Times
'A powerful book ... Phrase and image are constantly disturbing and stimulating' Sunday Telegraph
'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, J. G. Ballard, J.g. Ballard, James Gr. Ballard, James Gr. 10000041041 Ballard
• Assisted by: Kunzru Hari (Introduction)
• Publisher: Fourth Estate
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 21.05.2001
• EAN: 9780007116867
• ISBN: 978-0-00-711686-7
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 200 mm x 13 mm
• Series: Harper Perennial Modern Classics; Harper Perennial Modern Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary