Description: Originally published: New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Ã1973.
Brief description: J. G. Ballard is the author of numerous books, including Empire of the Sun, the underground classic Crash, The Kindness of Women, and Super-Cannes. He is revered as one of the most important writers of fiction to address the consequences of twentieth-century technology. He lives in England.
Review Quotes:
"A vision in both style and substance. The literary equivalent of Salvador Dali or Max Ernst."--The Washington Post Book World
"This is the excellent stuff of classic castaway adventure, stiffened here by contemporary overtones that call into question social values."--San Francisco Chronicle "Ballard's novels are complex, obsessive, frequently poetic, and always disquieting chronicles of nature rebelling against humans, of the survival of barbarism in a world of mechanical efficiency, of ethropy, anomie, breakdown, ruin....The blasted landscapes that his characters inhabit are both external settings and states of mind."--Luc Sante