J.G. Ballard Conversations
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A highly sought cultural commentator, J. G. Ballard has provided thoughtful remarks on the state of the world for decades. J.G. Ballard Conversations
brings together several of Ballard's latest interviews and gives
readers penetrating insight into the mind of one of the freshest
thinkers at work today. Covering topics such at the 9/11 terrorist
attacks, the evolution of sexual relationships, and our strange,
immersive celebrity culture, this book is a fount of provocative takes
on the things that matter. Rounded out with rare photographs of Ballard
and supplemental resources, J.G. Ballard Conversations is a necessary item for anyone interested in the modern world
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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