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  | | Concrete Island(2nd Edition) A Novel by J. G. Ballard, Neil Gaiman Paperback, 176 Pages, Published 2018 by Picador ISBN-13: 978-1-250-17152-8, ISBN: 1-250-17152-0 "Concrete Island pays twisted homage to Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe. Newly reissued with an introduction from Neil Gaiman.On a day in April, just after three o'clock in the afternoon, Robert Maitland's car crashes over the concrete parapet of a high-speed highway onto the island below, where he is injured and, finally, trapped. What begins as an almost ludicrous predicament soon turns into horror as Maitland―a wickedly modern Robinson Crusoe ..." |
 | | The Drowned World(50th Edition) A Novel (50th Anniversary) by J. G. Ballard, Martin Amis Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 2013 by Liveright ISBN-13: 978-0-87140-362-9, ISBN: 0-87140-362-5 "This torrid, powerful 1962 novel--the 17th of Millennium's very strong SF Masterworks classic reprints--was a major turning point in J.G. Ballard's career. In this future our old world has been gradually drowned as global warming melts the ice-caps and primordial jungles and swamps have returned to tropical London, recreating the ancient ecology of the Triassic age. According to the logic of Ballardian "inner space", these Turki ..." |
 | | High-Rise A Novel by J. G. Ballard Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 2012 by Liveright ISBN-13: 978-0-87140-402-2, ISBN: 0-87140-402-8 ""Harsh and ingenious! High Rise is an intense and vivid bestiary, which lingers unsettlingly in the mind." âMartin Amis, New StatesmanWhen a class war erupts inside a luxurious apartment block, modern elevators become violent battlegrounds and cocktail parties degenerate into marauding attacks on âenemyâ floors. In this visionary tale, human society slips into violent reverse as once-peaceful residents, driven by primal urges, re- ..." |
 | | Empire of the Sun(1st Edition) by J. G. Ballard Paperback, 279 Pages, Published 2005 by Simon & Schuster Bargain Price ISBN-13: 978-0-7432-6523-2, ISBN: 0-7432-6523-8 "The classic, award-winning novel, made famous by Steven Spielberg's film, tells of a young boy's struggle to survive World War II in China. Jim is separated from his parents in a world at war. To survive, he must find a strength greater than all the events that surround him. Shanghai, 1941 -- a city aflame from the fateful torch of Pearl Harbor. In streets full of chaos and corpses, a young British boy searches in vain for his parents ..." |
 | | The Kindness of Women(Reprint) A Novel by J. G. Ballard Paperback, 464 Pages, Published 2018 by Liveright ISBN-13: 978-1-63149-334-8, ISBN: 1-63149-334-5 "A must-read for any J. G. Ballard fan, this “capstone to a magnificent career” is the essential sequel to Empire of the Sun (San Francisco Chronicle). Published in 1991, this semi-autobiographical novel is a daring masterpiece from “one of the most important and intelligent voices in contemporary fiction” (Susan Sontag). “Rueful the way Primo Levi’s work was” (New York Times Book Review), the novel follows fifteen-year-old Jim Graham as ..." |
 | | Crash(Reprint) A Novel by J. G. Ballard, Zadie Smith Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2017 by Picador ISBN-13: 978-1-250-17151-1, ISBN: 1-250-17151-2 "The Definitive Cult, Postmodern Novel―a Shocking Blend of Violence, Transgression, and EroticismReissued with a New Introduction from Zadie SmithWhen J. G. Ballard, our narrator, smashes his car into another and watches a man die in front of him, he finds himself drawn with increasing intensity to the mangled impacts of car crashes. Robert Vaughan, a former TV scientist turned nightmare angel of the expressway, has gathered around him a ..." |
 | | Essai Sur Les Eaux Thermales De Barèges (Classic Reprint) by J. G. Ballard Hardcover, Published by Forgotten Books ISBN-13: 978-1-390-04691-5, ISBN: 1-390-04691-5 |
 | | The Crystal World(Reprint) by J. G. Ballard, Robert Macfarlane Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 2018 by Picador ISBN-13: 978-1-250-14480-5, ISBN: 1-250-14480-9 "J. G. Ballard's fourth novel, which established his reputation as a writer of extraordinary talent and imaginative powers, tells the story of a physician specializing in the treatment of leprosy who is invited to a small outpost in the interior of Africa. Finding the roadways blocked, he takes to the river, and embarks on a frightening journey through a strange petrified forest whose area expands daily, affecting not only the physical e ..." |
 | | High-Rise(Tie-In Edition) by J. G. Ballard Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 2015 by Fourth Estate International Edition ISBN-13: 978-0-00-813489-1, ISBN: 0-00-813489-8 "Coming in March 2016, a major film adaptation of J. G. Ballard's compelling and unnerving tale of what happens when life in a luxury apartment building descends into chaos. 'Later, as he sat on his balcony eating the dog, Dr Robert Laing reflected on the unusual events that had taken place within this huge apartment building during the previous three months.' Within the walls of an elegant forty-storey high-rise, the affluent tenants ar ..." |
 | | The Day of Creation(Reprint) A Novel by J. G. Ballard Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2012 by Liveright ISBN-13: 978-0-87140-404-6, ISBN: 0-87140-404-4 ""Compulsively absorbing: the white heat of its images seems to burn off the page, and the surreal landscapes linger on in the mind." —IndependentOn the arid, war-plagued terrain of central Africa, a manic doctor is consumed with visions of transforming the Sahara into a land of abundance. But Dr. Mallory’s obsession quickly spirals dangerously out of control. First published in 1987, this classic Ballard thriller continues to resona ..." |
 | | Empire of the Sun(Reprint) by J.G. Ballard Paperback, 384 Pages, Published 2008 by Harperperennial ISBN-13: 978-0-00-726840-5, ISBN: 0-00-726840-8 |
 | | The Kindness of Women(1st Edition) A Novel by J. G. Ballard Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 2007 by Picador ISBN-13: 978-0-312-42284-4, ISBN: 0-312-42284-9 "In this sequel to his award-winning Empire of the Sun, young James returns to England at the end of World War II. He stumbles through medical study at Cambridge, trains briefly as an RAF pilot in Canada, and marries. When his wife dies suddenly, Jim is thrust into the violence and sexual promiscuity of the sixties. Penetrating and wise, J. G. Ballard's biting social commentary and pushing of boundaries make this semi-autobiographical no ..." |
 | | War Fever by J. G. Ballard Paperback, 175 Pages, Published 1999 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux ISBN-13: 978-0-374-52576-7, ISBN: 0-374-52576-5 "A war-ravaged Beirut is the setting for the title story of this visionary collection, a tale in which a young street fighter inadvertently discovers how to bring an to the bloodshed only to find that his solution is all too effective as far as some supposedly neutral observers are concerned. Other stories feature an assassination plot against an American astronaut, the leader of an authoritarian religious movement; a man who is destroy ..." |
 | | The Kindness of Women(1st Edition) by J. G. Ballard Hardcover, 343 Pages, Published 1991 by Farrar Straus & Giroux (T) ISBN-13: 978-0-374-18110-9, ISBN: 0-374-18110-1 "In this sequel to his award-winning Empire of the Sun, young James returns to England at the end of World War II. He stumbles through medical study at Cambridge, trains briefly as an RAF pilot in Canada, and marries. When his wife dies suddenly, Jim is thrust into the violence and sexual promiscuity of the sixties. Penetrating and wise, J. G. Ballard's biting social commentary and pushing of boundaries make this semi-autobiographical no ..." |
 | | Super-Cannes(Reprint) A Novel by J. G. Ballard, Ali Smith Paperback, 448 Pages, Published 2017 by Picador ISBN-13: 978-1-250-17150-4, ISBN: 1-250-17150-4 "WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ALI SMITHLong-regarded as one of the true visionary writers of the twentieth century, J.G. Ballard was one of the first British writers of the post-war period to begin to see, and to map out in his fiction, the future course of our civilization. For forty years his unflinching eye has turned to the point where the advancing edge of our technological progress has worn away our inner humanity. Eden-Olympia is more ..." |
 | | Empire of the Sun by J. G. Ballard 288 Pages, Published 2013 by Simon & Schuster ISBN-13: 978-1-4767-3753-9, ISBN: 1-4767-3753-3 "Jim felt sorry for the peasant woman, whose sack of rice was probably her only possession, but at the same time he admired the Japanese. ... All of them carried photographs of their identical families, little formal prints, as if the entire Japanese Army had been recruited only ... waterfront life around them, they would let Jim work the bolts of their Lee-Enfields and ream out the barrels with the pull- throughs." |
 | | High-Rise A Novel by J. G. Ballard 208 Pages, Published 2012 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-87140-473-2, ISBN: 0-87140-473-7 "Hands in the pockets of his dinner-jacket, he stood at the windows of the penthouse apartment on the 40th floor and looked down across the concrete plazas of the development project. All the tenants who had earlier left for their offices had ..." |
 | | Kingdom Come A Novel by J. G. Ballard 320 Pages, Published 2012 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-87140-474-9, ISBN: 0-87140-474-5 "'The police always jump to conclusions. It's part oftheir job, builds confidence with the public. You saw Christie today. He can't concentratelong enoughto menda fuse,letalone carry through an assassination.' 'Assassination?' I turned to stare at the dome, which seemed to grow in size as it glowed in the fading light. 'That implies someone very important. Who exactly?' 'The target? Impossibleto say. David Cruise?' 'A cablechannel p ..." |
 | | Millennium People A Novel by J. G. Ballard 288 Pages, Published 2011 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-08199-2, ISBN: 0-393-08199-0 "J. G. Ballard. a less bracing scent, the odour of the guilty and unwashed, hung over the magistrates' court in ... was drowned by the ceaseless activity in the court as solicitors, accused, police officers, ushers and witnesses roamed up and down ..." |
 | | Super-Cannes A Novel by J. G. Ballard 400 Pages, Published 2010 by Macmillan ISBN-13: 978-1-4299-7053-2, ISBN: 1-4299-7053-7 "'The finest graded pelts. We should ... 'I'm not sure.' Delage gazed around the shelves of books, hoping for an answer in their sealed pages. ... Frances was waiting for me in the conservatory, brochures under her arm. I already ... I opened the passenger door of her car, realizing the role played by the brochures. I glanced at ..." |
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