Miracles of Life: Shanghai to Shepperton, An Autobiography

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Miracles of Life: Shanghai to Shepperton, An Autobiography

A final statement from the greatest clairvoyant of twentieth-century literature.

Never before published in America, this revelatory autobiographyâ€”hailed as â€œfascinating [and] amazingly lucidâ€ (Guardian)â€”charts the remarkable story of James Graham Ballard, a man described by Martin Amis as â€œthe most original English writer of the last century.â€ Beginning with his Shanghai childhood, Miracles of Life guides us from the deprivations of Lunghua Camp during World War II, which provide the back story for his best-selling Empire of the Sun, to his arrival in war-torn England and his emergence as â€œthe ideal chronicler of our disturbed modernityâ€ (Observer). With prose of characteristic precision, Ballard movingly recalls his first attempts at science fiction, the 1970 American pulping of The Atrocity Exhibitionâ€”which sprang from his fascination with JFK conspiracy theoriesâ€”and his life as a single father after the premature death of his wife. â€œThis book should make yet more converts to a cause that Ballardâ€™s devotees have been pleading for yearsâ€ (Independent).

Country	USA
Author	J. G. Ballard
Binding	Kindle Edition
Edition	1
EISBN	9780871403421
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	Liveright
Manufacturer	Liveright
NumberOfPages	265
PublicationDate	2013-02-04
Publisher	Liveright
ReleaseDate	2013-01-28
Studio	Liveright

Miracles of Life: Shanghai to Shepperton, An Autobiography

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