The Complete Short Stories: Volume 1

ISBN-13: 9780007242290 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 784 str.

J. G. Ballard

Opis

Presents a collection of stories that have appeared in magazines such as "New Worlds", "Amazing Stories" and "Interzone", and in several separate collections. These stories provide an opportunity to review the career of one of Britain's greatest writers.

Recenzje

'More than one thousand compelling pages from one of the most haunting, cogent and individual imaginations in contemporary literature' William Boyd

'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

'Simply a master story writer - the maker of unforgettable artefacts in words' Jonathan Lethem

'Indispensable ... probably the most original English writer of the last century' China Miéville

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.