Miracles of Life: Shanghai to Shepperton, an Autobiography

Few writers have both examined and anticipated the effects of technology and media on human psychology in the postwar world as prophetically and deftly as Ballard, who has emerged as an "ideal chronicler of our disturbed modernity" (Observer). The "Ballardian" tropes and patterns that haunt his work, the empty swimming pools, low-flying aircraft, car accidents, celebrity death, and desolate, radically transformed landscapes, take on new meaning as he narrates the experiences that would fundamentally shape his writing,

Author: J.G. Ballard

Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation

Released Date: 2013

ISBN: 9780871404206