Miracles of Life - Ballard, J. G.
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J. G. Ballard was, for over fifty years, one of this country's most significant writers. Beginning with the events that inspired his classic novel, â Empire of the Sunâ , this revelatory autobiography charts the course of his astonishing life.

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J. G. Ballard was, for over fifty years, one of this country's most significant writers. Beginning with the events that inspired his classic novel, â Empire of the Sunâ , this revelatory autobiography charts the course of his astonishing life.
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Autorenporträt
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.
Rezensionen
'Superb. Mr Ballard, you are wonderful' Sunday Times

'Exquisitely written ... 'Miracles of Life', a subtle, restlessly enquiring work of touching humanity, is Ballard's crowning achievement' Financial Times

'Brief, modest and occasionally shattering, in a way that elevates it to a level of greatness' Observer

'A jewel. As a writer, he can simply take the breath away' Independent