Please note that I will adjust the charge I make if this is the case and postage to Europe will be lower than the rest of the world. Not all European countries have been added so your shipping may appear high. For European orders I have only quoted a price for air mail. If you are buying a small paperback or another small book then the postage and packing will generally be reduced by £1.50 and I will reduce the charge before processing your order.Įuropean Orders: Shipping costs are based on books weighing 800g. If your book order is heavy or oversized, we may contact you to let you know extra shipping is required. UK Orders: Shipping costs are based on books weighing 2.2 lb, or 1 kg. Orders usually ship within 2 business days. His memoir Miracles of Life was published in 2008. His 1984 best seller Empire of the Sun won the Guardian Fiction Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. He published his first novel, The Drowned World, in 1961. After internment in a civilian prison camp, he and his family returned to England in 1946. Ballard was born in 1930 in Shanghai, where his father was a businessman. Finally, through the black, perverse magic of violence he transcends his psychic turmoil to find the key to a bizarre new sexuality. Seeking his sanity, he casts himself in a number of roles: H-bomber pilot, presidential assassin, crash victim, psychopath. Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe, dead astronauts and car-crash victims as he traverses the screaming wastes of nervous breakdown. The central character’s dreams are haunted by images of John F. The irrational, all-pervading violence of the modern world is the subject of this extraordinary tour de force. This edition features explanatory notes from the author. Ballard, the acclaimed author of Crash and Super-Cannes. A prophetic and experimental masterpiece by J.

Ballard the atrocity exhibition