Hello America

ISBN-13: 9780007287031 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 240 str.

J Ballard

Opis

Following the energy crisis of the late 20th century America has been abandoned. A century later, a small group of explorers returns, but America is unrecognisable - the Bering Strait has been dammed and the continent has become a desert, populated by isolated natives and the remnants of a disintegrated culture.

Recenzje

'Mordant and inventive, Ballard at his best' New Statesman

'It is futile to have expectations of Ballard: he will inevitably subvert them. All we know for certain is that the novels he will write could not be written, could not even be guessed at, by anyone else' Martin Amis, Observer

'Enter Mr Ballard's worlds and you become entranced in a séance difficult to break out of, so powerful is his method' The Times

'This is a very clever fiction, and - yes - another amazing improvisation on Ballard's basic theme' Guardian

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.

Ben Marcus was born in 1967, educated at Brown and NYU, and now teaches and runs a writers' website at Brown University in Providence.