J. G. Ballard

Cocaine Nights

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Produktbeschreibung

â Snort up â Cocaine Nightsâ . Itâ s disorientating, deranging and knocks the work of other avant-garde writers into a hatted cockâ Will Self

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Fourth Estate / Import
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 092469
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 200mm x 132mm x 34mm
• Gewicht: 250g
• ISBN-13: 9780006550648
• ISBN-10: 0006550649
• Artikelnr.: 21982675

Autorenporträt

J. G. Ballard was born in 1930 in Shanghai. After internment in a civilian prison camp, his family returned to England in 1946. His 1984 bestseller 'Empire of the Sun' won the Guardian Fiction Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. His controversial novel 'Crash' was made into a film by David Cronenberg. His autobiography 'Miracles of Life' was published in 2008, and a collection of interviews with the author, 'Extreme Metaphors', was published in 2012. J. G. Ballard passed away in 2009.

Rezensionen

'Utterly compulsive' Sunday Telegraph

'Snort up "Cocaine Nights". It's disorientating, deranging and knocks the work of other avant-garde writers into a hatted cock' Will Self

'The possessor of a terrifying and exhilarating imagination - and a national treasure' Guardian

'Guaranteed to keep you reading into the early hours' Sunday Times

'Thrillingly wired ... dazzlingly original' Independent

'The terrifying thing about Ballard is his logic; is this science fiction or history written ahead of its time?' Len Deighton