J. G. Ballard

The Complete Short Stories (eBook, ePUB)

Volume 2

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The second in a two volume collection of acclaimed short stories by the author of Empire of the Sun, Crash, Cocaine Nights and Super-Cannes.

JG Ballard is firmly established as one of Britain's most highly regarded and influential novelists. However, during his long career he was also a prolific writer of short stories, many of which show the germination of ideas he used in his longer fiction.

This, the second book in a two-volume collection, offers a platform from which to view Ballard's other works. Almost all of his novels had their seeds in short stories and this collection provides an extraordinary opportunity to trace the development of one of Britain's most visionary writers.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 784
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780007513611
• Artikelnr.: 41052808

Autorenporträt

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.

Rezensionen

'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