J. G. Ballard
J.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.
Books by J. G. Ballard
A collection of 98 enthralling and pulse-quickening stories, spanning five decades, venerates the remarkable imagination of J. G. Ballard.More
"Compulsively absorbing: the white heat of its images seems to burn off the page, and the surreal landscapes linger on in the mind." —IndependentMore
An apocalyptic dystopia like no other, one whose "originality and power [of] vision can be felt" (Times Literary Supplement).More
50th Anniversary Edition
A new generation discovers "the most original English writer of the last century." —China Miéville, The NationMore
"This fable lifts a great freight of ideas effortlessly…The story of an expedition driven on by wishes of possession and power but guided internally by myths of America whose sources lie in the late 20th century." —GuardianMore
"Harsh and ingenious! High Rise is an intense and vivid bestiary, which lingers unsettlingly in the mind." —Martin Amis, New StatesmanMore
“J.G. Ballard is the undisputed laureate of suburban psychosis. . . . A brilliant novel.”—Literary ReviewMore
"The most cosmically elegiac writer in literature . . . no one reading Ballard could doubt the tidal gravity of his intellect." —Jonathan Lethem, New York Times Book ReviewMore
A final statement from the greatest clairvoyant of twentieth-century literature.More
"[A] chilling . . . tale about humans who gamely follow their own worst instincts.”—Chicago TribuneMore
"A remarkable piece of invention, a flight from the world of the familiar and the real into the exotic universe of dream and desire." —New York Times Book ReviewMore