Description: With 92 enthralling and pulse-quickening stories spanning five decades, and featuring such classics as Prima Belladonna and The Index, Ballard's "Complete Stories" evokes Kafka and Borges with its ability to render psychosis, modern paranoia, and fantastical creations on the page.
Brief description: Martin Amis is one of Britain's most prolific post-war writers and a professor of creative writing at the University of Manchester. His stories and essays explore the absurdity of the postmodern condition.
Review Quotes: A master story writer--the maker of unforgettable artifacts in words, each as absolute and perplexing as sculptures unviewable from a single perspective.--Jonathan Lethem "The New York Times Book Review"