Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
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.
'Utterly compulsive' Sunday Telegraph 'Snort up "Cocaine Nights". It's disorientating, deranging and knocks the work of other avant-garde writers into a hatted cock' Will Self 'The possessor of a terrifying and exhilarating imagination - and a national treasure' Guardian 'Guaranteed to keep you reading into the early hours' Sunday Times 'Thrillingly wired ... dazzlingly original' Independent 'The terrifying thing about Ballard is his logic; is this science fiction or history written ahead of its time?' Len Deighton
‘Snort up “Cocaine Nights”. It’s disorientating, deranging and knocks the work of other avant-garde writers into a hatted cock’ Will Self
'One needs a great deal of idle time to feel really sorry for oneself.'
Nothing is as it seems in the sun-soaked Spanish paradise of Estrella de Mar. When a mysterious house fire disrupts the serenity of this exclusive enclave for retired, rich Brits, Charles Prentice finds himself investigating a murder – to which his brother has already confessed. As he begins to scratch at the perfect veneer of this playground for the privileged, Charles is sent down a sinister spiral of his own, to uncover a dark world of adultery, drugs and violent crime bubbling underneath.
‘Snort up “Cocaine Nights”. It’s disorientating, deranging and knocks the work of other avant-garde writers into a hatted cock’ Will Self
Nothing is as it seems in the sun-soaked Spanish paradise of Estrella de Mar. When a mysterious house fire disrupts the serenity of this exclusive enclave for retired, rich Brits, Charles Prentice finds himself investigating a murder – to which his brother has already confessed. As he begins to scratch at the perfect veneer of this playground for the privileged, Charles is sent down a sinister spiral of his own, to uncover a dark world of adultery, drugs and violent crime bubbling underneath.
As seen on Write Around the World with Richard E Grant
As seen on Write Around the World with Richard E Grant
• J. G. Ballard was at the forefront of modern British fiction for over three decades, achieving remarkable critical acclaim and commercial success. He has a large and very dedicated fanbase.
• When first published, ‘Cocaine Nights’ received an astonishing critical reception and confirmed Ballard’s position as one of our age’s best writers. It is one of Ballard’s most accessible and commercially successful novels.
• It will be given a stunning new cover treatment and reissued as part of an ongoing update of the J. G. Ballard series style. This will feature a fantastic new introduction by James Lever.
• ‘Empire of the Sun’, shortlisted for the Booker Prize, was made into a film by Steven Spielberg. ‘Crash’ was also later made into an equally controversial film by David Cronenberg. An all-star film adaptation of ‘High-Rise’ directed by Ben Wheatley and starring Tom Hiddleston is in production now.
Competition: The Infernal Desire Machines of Dr Hoffman; Crash; Annihilation; The Lathe of Heaven; Nineteen Eighty-Four; Steppenwolf; Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. James Lever; Philip K Dick; Angela Carter; Jeff VanderMeer; Ursula K Le Guin; Martin Amis; Will Self; George Orwell; Franz Kafka; Hunter S. Thompson; John Le Carre
Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
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.