The Disaster Area
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This mesmerizing collection demonstrates perfectly Ballard’s extraordinary writing talent.
All the concentrated power and imagination that distinguish his novels are demonstrated here: the iron strength of his stories lies in the juxtaposition of a recognisable physical word with an inner, complex dream landscape. Within this Disaster Area you’ll find:
The Concentration City – where the world creaks under one unimaginably vast megalopolis. there is no free space, and there is no way out …
The Subliminal Man – come face to face with the ultimate advertisement, then wish you hadn’t …
Manhole 69 – a group of surgically altered men try to do without sleep. But permanent consciousness turns out to be worse than any nightmare.
J. G. Ballard
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.
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