Beschreibung:
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.
Edited by Simon Sellars and Dan O'Hara, this is a prescient collection of interviews with the late, great author J.G. Ballard. Features conversations with cultural figureheads such as Will Self, Jon Savage, Iain Sinclair and John Gray.