The Atrocity Exhibition - Softcover

Ballard, J. G.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1889307033 ISBN 13: 9781889307039

Verlag: V/Search Publications,U.S., 1990

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Book by Ballard JG

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Reseña del editor

The Atrocity Exhibition is J.G. Ballard's most complex, disturbing work, with fabulous photos by Ana Barrado and artwork by Phoebe Gloeckner.

Biografía del autor

James Graham Ballard (15 November 1930 - 19 April 2009) was an English novelist and short story writer who was a prominent part of the science fiction New Wave movement. His best-known novels are the controversial Crash, an exploration of sexual fetishism connected to automobile accidents, and the loosely autobiographical Empire of the Sun, about his childhood internment by the Japanese during World War II after the invasion and conquest of Shanghai, where Ballard was born in the International Settlement. Both books were adapted into films, by David Cronenberg and Steven Spielberg respectively. So distinctive was his work that the adjective "Ballardian" entered the language, defined by the Collins English Dictionary as "resembling or suggestive of the conditions described in J. G. Ballard's novels and stories, especially dystopian modernity, bleak man-made landscapes and the psychological effects of technological, social or environmental developments." Ballard was diagnosed with prostate cancer in June 2006, from which he died in London in April 2009.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: V/Search Publications,U.S.
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1990
• ISBN 10: 1889307033
• ISBN 13: 9781889307039
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 127