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Miracles of Life

Miracles of Life

An Autobiography Shanghai to Shepperton

by J. G. Ballard
Hardback
Publication Date: 02/01/2009

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'Miracles of Life' opens and closes in Shanghai, the city where J.G. Ballard was born, and where he spent most of the Second World War interned with his family in a Japanese concentration camp.
ISBN:
9780753195246
9780753195246
Category:
Literature: history & criticism
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
02-01-2009
Publisher:
ISIS Large Print Books
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
J. G. Ballard

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.

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