The Disaster Area
1st Edition
Published on 25. May 2017
192 pages
978-0-00-751362-8 (ISBN)
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This mesmerizing collection demonstrates perfectly Ballard's extraordinary writing talent.
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J. G. Ballard
The Disaster Area
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03/1992
Flamingo
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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.
