The Complete Short Stories: Volume 2

ISBN-13: 9780007245765 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 784 str.

J. G. Ballard

Opis

The second in a two volume collection of short stories by the acclaimed author of 'Empire of the Sun', 'Crash' and 'Super-Cannes'. The new edition is introduced by Adam Thirwell.

Recenzje

'A marvel ... there is something a little shaming in reading Ballard: you have to face the fact that there exist writers with such fresh imaginations they can't write five pages without stumbling on an alternate world' Zadie Smith

'Each of Ballard's 98 short stories is like a dream more perfectly realized than any of your own ... Simply a master story writer - the maker of unforgettable artefacts in words, each as absolute and perplexing as sculptures unviewable from a single perspective' Jonathan Lethem

'One of the most haunting, cogent and individual imaginations in contemporary literature' William Boyd

O autorze

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.