1905, ISBN: 0393339297

[EAN: 9780393339291], Neubuch, [PU: W. W. Norton & Company], Product DescriptionA collection of 98 enthralling and pulse-quickening stories, spanning five decades, venerates the remarkabl… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780393339291], Neubuch, [PU: W. W. Norton & Company], Product DescriptionA collection of 98 enthralling and pulse-quickening stories, spanning five decades, venerates the remarkable imagination of J. G. Ballard. With a body of work unparalleled in twentieth-century literature, J. G. Ballard is recognized as one of the greatest and most prophetic writers in the world. With the much-hailed release of The Complete Stories of J. G. Ballard, readers now have a means to celebrate the unmatched range and mesmerizing cadences of a literary genius. Whether writing about musical orchids, human cannibalism, or the secret history of World War III, Ballard's Complete Stories evokes the hallucinations of Kafka and Borges in its ability to render modern paranoia and fantastical creations on the page. A Washington Post Best Book of 2009, Boston Globe Best Book, Los Angeles Times Favorite Book, and San Francisco Chronicle Best Book.Review"A master story writer-the maker of unforgettable artifacts in words, each as absolute and perplexing as sculptures unviewable from a single perspective."- Jonathan Lethem, The New York Times Book Review"A revelation; essential reading."- Literary Journal"Eerie and melancholy, they unsettle like a Dali painting or a Helmut Newton photograph."- Washington Post"Ballard is probably the most original English writer of the last century. the book is indispensable."- China Mieville, The NationFrom the Back Cover"More than one thousand compelling pages from one of the most haunting, cogent, and individual imaginations in contemporary literature."-William BoydNever before published in its entirety in America, with many stories new to American readers, The Complete Stories of J. G. Ballard is a monumental achievement by one of our greatest literary geniuses. Featuring such classics as "Prima Belladonna," "The Drowned Giant," and "The Assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy Considered as a Downhill Motor Race," the book evokes Poe and Kafka, Borges and Bradbury in its astonishing ability to render psychosis and modern paranoia in phantasmagorical detail on the printed page.Praise for J.G. Ballard: "Ballard will be remembered as the most original English writer of the last century . . . [and] as a one-man genre; no one else is remotely like him. . . . He was sui generis. What was influential, though, was the marvelous creaminess of his prose, and the weird and sudden expansions of his imagery."-Martin Amis, The Guardian"When I was a boy, I loved J. G. Ballard. And when I was a teenager, I loved J. G. Ballard. And as an adult, I loved J. G. Ballard."-Neil Gaiman"For anyone bored with the stale conventions of mainstream fiction, his 90-odd short stories of stilled time, desolate beauty and personal fulfillment in extreme situations will be sheer delight."-John Gray, The New Statesman"[W]ho would argue that ours is not a time of nihilism and that Ballard is not the ideal chronicler of our disturbed modernity?"-Jason Cowley, The ObserverAbout the AuthorJ.G. Ballard was born in Shanghai in 1930 and lived in England from 1946 until his death in London in 2009. He is the author of nineteen novels, including Empire of the Sun, The Drought, and Crash, with many of them made into major films.Martin Amis is one of Britain's most prolific post-war writers and a professor of creative writing at the University of Manchester. His stories and essays explore the absurdity of the postmodern condition., Books<

2010, ISBN: 0393339297

[EAN: 9780393339291], Neubuch, [PU: W W NORTON & CO], FICTION - GENERAL SHORT STORIES (SINGLE AUTHOR), With 92 enthralling and pulse-quickening stories spanning five decades, and featurin… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780393339291], Neubuch, [PU: W W NORTON & CO], FICTION - GENERAL SHORT STORIES (SINGLE AUTHOR), With 92 enthralling and pulse-quickening stories spanning five decades, and featuring such classics as Prima Belladonna and The Index, Ballard s Complete Stories evokes Kafka and Borges with its ability to render psychosis, modern paranoia, and fantastica., Books<

ISBN: 9780393339291

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*The Complete Stories of J. G. Ballard* / Taschenbuch für 35.99 € / Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Romane & Erzählungen Medien > Bücher nein Taschenbuch Bücher > Taschenbücher > Romane & Erzählungen, W W NORTON & CO<

2010, ISBN: 9780393339291

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