Hello, America - Hardcover

Ballard, J. G.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0224019147 ISBN 13: 9780224019149

Publisher: Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1981

Synopsis

Frank Sinatra, Charles Manson and American presidents play their part in J G Ballard's tribute to the American dream past, present and future.

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Review:

‘Mordant and inventive, Ballard at his best’ New Statesman

‘It is futile to have expectations of Ballard: he will inevitably subvert them. All we know for certain is that the novels he will write could not be written, could not even be guessed at, by anyone else’ Martin Amis, Observer

‘Enter Mr Ballard’s worlds and you become entranced in a séance difficult to break out of, so powerful is his method’ The Times

‘This is a very clever fiction, and – yes – another amazing improvisation on Ballard's basic theme’ Guardian

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Jonathan Cape Ltd
• Publication date: 1981
• ISBN 10: 0224019147
• ISBN 13: 9780224019149
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224