J. G. Ballard

Broschiertes Buch

Kingdom Come

Beschreibung

With a new introduction by Deborah Levy and a striking new cover design by the artist Stanley Donwood, Ballardâ s final novel sees consumerism evolve into something even more sinister.

Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Fourth Estate / HarperCollins UK
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 092677
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juli 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 130mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 210g
• ISBN-13: 9780007232475
• ISBN-10: 0007232470
• Artikelnr.: 22730232

Rezensionen

'"Kingdom Come" is important, germaine, timely and creepy, a tidal wrack of ideas washed up on the artificial beach of our resort culture.' Will Self

'As outré as ever, and still as keen to understand the national psyche ... Ballard retains a clear-sighted, almost vatic quality' Spectator

'As fertile as ever ... "Kingdom Come" is impressively packed with brilliant apercus' Observer

'Ballard's vision is scary and utterly real ... compelling' Financial Times