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<p class="null1">A final statement from the greatest clairvoyant of twentieth-century literature.</p> <p>Never before published in America, this revelatory autobiography—hailed as “fascinating [and] amazingly lucid” (<b>Guardian</b>)—charts the remarkable story of James Graham Ballard, a man described by Martin Amis as “the most original English writer of the last century.” Beginning with his Shanghai childhood, <b>Miracles of Life</b> guides us from the deprivations of Lunghua Camp during World War II, which provide the back story for his best-selling <b>Empire of the Sun</b>, to his arrival in war-torn England and his emergence as “the ideal chronicler of our disturbed modernity” (<b>Observer</b>). With prose of characteristic precision, Ballard movingly recalls his first attempts at science fiction, the 1970 American pulping of <b>The Atrocity Exhibition</b>—which sprang from his fascination with JFK conspiracy theories—and his life as a single father after the premature death of his wife. “This book should make yet more converts to a cause that Ballard’s devotees have been pleading for years” (<b>Independent</b>).</p>

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Author

Ballard, J. G., 1930-2009

Publisher

New York: Liveright Pub. Corporation

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9780871404206

Category

history

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Memoir

Rating

3.98 / 5 (27 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14