The Kindness of Women by J G Ballard

The Kindness of Women by J G Ballard

This is autobiography taken to the highest reaches of fiction, another wonderful novel of scorching power, shot through with honesty and lyricism Observer

‘Autobiography taken to the highest reaches of fiction, another wonderful novel of scorching power’ Observer

‘The most modern of writers; his art engages with the artefacts and obsessions of the second half of this century in a manner and with an intensity unmatched by any other writer I can think of’ William Boyd

‘Quite as extraordinary an achievement as “Empire of the Sun” … A dazzling construction, a sequence of chapters almost every one of which is a tour de force in its own right’ Guardian

‘Compulsively readable … unbearably moving’ Financial Times

‘Brilliant … Ballard at his best’ Independent on Sunday

‘The terrifying thing about Ballard is his logic; is this science fiction or history written ahead of its time?’ Len Deighton

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.

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ISBN 13	9780006547013
ISBN 10	000654701X
Title	The Kindness of Women
Author	J G Ballard
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	HarperCollins Publishers
Year published	1994-09-12
Number of pages	352
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