The Complete Stories of J. G. Ballard

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1st edition. 1199 pages. 10.25x6.75x2.50 inches. In Stock. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 0393072622

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Von der hinteren Coverseite: More than one thousand compelling pages from one of the most haunting, cogent, and individual imaginations in contemporary literature. William BoydNever before published in its entirety in America, with many stories new to American readers, The Complete Stories of J. G. Ballard is a monumental achievement by one of our greatest literary geniuses. Featuring such classics as Prima Belladonna, The Drowned Giant, and The Assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy Considered as a Downhill Motor Race, the book evokes Poe and Kafka, Borges and Bradbury in its astonishing ability to render psychosis and modern paranoia in phantasmagorical detail on the printed page.Praise for J.G. Ballard: Ballard will be remembered as the most original English writer of the last century . . . [and] as a one-man genre; no one else is remotely like him. . . . He was sui generis. What was influential, though, was the marvelous creaminess of his prose, and the weird and sudden expansions of his imagery. Martin Amis, The Guardian When I was a boy, I loved J. G. Ballard. And when I was a teenager, I loved J. G. Ballard. And as an adult, I loved J. G. Ballard. Neil Gaiman For anyone bored with the stale conventions of mainstream fiction, his 90-odd short stories of stilled time, desolate beauty and personal fulfillment in extreme situations will be sheer delight. John Gray, The New Statesman [W]ho would argue that ours is not a time of nihilism and that Ballard is not the ideal chronicler of our disturbed modernity? Jason Cowley, The Observer|The Complete Stories of J. G. Ballardsui generisThe GuardianThe New StatesmanThe Observer