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Ballard, J. G.

 
9780007454860: Extreme Metaphors: Selected Interviews With J. G. Ballard, 1967-2008
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ISBN 10 : 0007454864 ISBN 13 : 9780007454860
Editeur : Fourth Estate Ltd, 2014

Synopsis

A startling and at times unsettlingly prescient collection of J. G. Ballard’s greatest interviews.

J.G. Ballard was a literary giant. Best known for his controversial bestseller ‘Crash’ and the memoir ‘Empire of the Sun’, he was a writer of unique talent – always surprising, frequently prescient.

Such acuity was not exclusive to his novels and, as this book reminds us, Ballard’s restive intelligence sharpened itself in dialogue. He entertained many with insights into the world as he saw it, and speculated, often correctly, about its future. Some of these observations earned Ballard an oracular reputation, and continue to yield an uncannily accurate commentary today.

‘Extreme Metaphors’ collects the finest interviews of his career. Conversations with Will Self, Jon Savage, Iain Sinclair and John Gray, and collaborators like David Cronenberg, are a reminder of his wit and humanity, testament to Ballard’s profound worldliness as much as his otherworldly imagination. This collection is an indispensable tribute to one of recent history’s most original thinkers.

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À propos de l'auteur

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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Éditeur
Fourth Estate Ltd
Date d'édition
2014
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0007454864
ISBN 13 
9780007454860
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
528
Éditeur
Sellars Simon, O’Hara Dan
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