High-Rise

J. G. Ballard
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High-Rise

J. G. Ballard
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‘Ballard’s finest novel … a triumph’ The Times‘ingenious … ‘High-Rise’ is an intense and vivid bestiary, which lingers unsettlingly in the mind’ Martin Amis‘Chilling … Ballard is a prophetic writer’ Sunday Times‘The writing is cool, the observation exact, the idea bold and well-developed; everything seems to demand attention and analysis’ Financial Times‘The terrifying thing about Ballard is his logic; is this science fiction or history written ahead of its time?’ Len Deighton
  • Published date: Apr 26, 2016
  • Language: English
  • Publisher: HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS
  • ISBN: 9780008134891
  • Dimensions: 5.078740157" W x 0.748031496" L x 7.79527559" H
J. G. Ballard was born in 1930 in Shanghai. After internment in a civilian prison camp, his family returned to England in 1946. His 1984 bestseller ‘Empire of the Sun’ won the Guardian Fiction Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. His controversial novel ‘Crash’ was made into a film by David Cronenberg. His autobiography ‘Miracles of Life’ was published in 2008, and a collection of interviews with the author, ‘Extreme Metaphors’, was published in 2012. J. G. Ballard passed away in 2009.

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