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The Complete Stories of J. G. Ballard by J. G. Ballard (2009, Hardcover)

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Excellent copy of a first edition first print 2009 "The Complete Stories of J.G. Ballard." An ex library copy, it has an expensive protective clear jacket over its original jacket. Great for collectors wanting to preserve their books. Book is a near new copy and would make an excellent addition to your library. This rare book will come as shown.

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The American publication of The Complete Stories of J. G. Ballard is a landmark event. Increasingly recognized as one of the greatest and most prophetic novelists, J. G. Ballard was a "writer of enormous inventive powers," who, in the words of Malcolm Bradbury, possessed, "like Calvino, a remarkable gift for filling the empty deprived spaces of modern life with the invisible cities and the wonder worlds of imagination." Best known for his novels, such as Empire of the Sun and Crash , Ballard rose to fame as the "ideal chronicler of disturbed modernity" (The Observer). Perhaps less known, though equally brilliant, were his devastatingly original short stories, which span nearly fifty years and reveal an unparalleled prescience so unique that a new word-- Ballardian --had to be invented. Ballard, who wrote that "short stories are the loose change in the treasury of fiction, easily ignored beside the wealth of novels available," regretted the fact that the public had increasingly lost its ability to appreciate them. With 98 pulse-quickening stories, this volume helps restore the very art form that Ballard feared was comatose. Ballard's inimitable style was already present in his early stories, most of them published in science fiction magazines. These stories are surreal, richly atmospheric and splendidly elliptical, featuring an assortment of psychotropic houses, time-traveling assassins, and cities without clocks. Over the next fifty years, his fierce imaginative energy propelled him to explore new topics, including the dehumanization of technology, the brutality of the corporation, and nuclear Armageddon. Depicting the human soul as "being enervated and corrupted by the modern world" ( New York Times ), Ballard began to examine themes like overpopulation, as in "Billenium," a claustrophobic imagining of a world of 20 billion people crammed into four-square-meter rooms, or the false realities of modern media, as in the classic "Why I Want to Fuck Ronald Reagan," a faux-psychological study of the sexual and violent reactions elicited by viewing Reagan's face on television, in which Ballard predicted the unholy fusion of pop culture and sound-bite politics thirteen years before Reagan became president. Given Ballard's heightened powers of perception, it is astonishing that the dehumanized world that he apprehended so acutely neither diminished his own febrile imagination nor his engagement with mankind, evident in every story, including two new ones for this American edition. So eerily prophetic is his vision, so commanding are his literary gifts, the import and insight of J. G. Ballard's deeply humanistic and transcendent works can only grow in years to come.

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Publisher
Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
ISBN-10
0393072622
ISBN-13
9780393072624
eBay Product ID (ePID)
72664039

Product Key Features

Book Title
Complete Stories of J. G. Ballard
Author
J. G. Ballard
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Short Stories (Single Author)
Publication Year
2009
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
1216 Pages

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Item Length
9.6in
Item Height
2.3in
Item Width
6.5in
Item Weight
59 Oz

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Lc Classification Number
Pr6052.A46a6 2009
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At 1,200 pages, it may seem like a daunting book for the non-enthusiast, but it provides the best angle for approaching Ballard for the first time--and displays his development into Britain's most original postwar writer...The Complete Stories of J. G. Ballard demonstrates the range and evolution of that work, and suggests that we might come up with many more uses of 'Ballardian' than we have so far., As exotic as anyone in the aviary was Ballard, the elegant, evolving stylist, and the one with the finest ideas almost always finely executed. The full showcase of his short-form career is assembled at last in The Collected Stories, with a brilliant introduction by Martin Amis., Although Ballard, who died in April, was probably more influential than he was popular, during his lifetime he received the ultimate literary honorific: the use of his name in adjectival form. Perhaps best known for his books that became movies...he was a prolific and provocative short-story writer, too....An essential work from an essential writer., The marvel of most of these tales is how instantly comprehensible their alternate realities are when so little is explained--and how believable they are, too, thanks to Ballard's unflappable narrative voice. With unerring instinct, he finds the ordinariness in the most preposterous scenarios, thus connecting them in detail and tone to our own reality....There are still two Ballard novels and a memoir awaiting U.S. publication. Let's hope the overdue appearance of this volume means the rest are on their way., [A] staggeringly great and varied volume.... The Complete Stories of J.G. Ballard offers weeks of surprise and pleasure., Each of Ballard's 98 short stories is like a dream more perfectly realized than any of your own....Ultimately, Ballard is simply a master story writer--the maker of unforgettable artifacts in words, each as absolute and perplexing as sculptures unviewable from a single perspective. In this book of 98 stories, there are at least 30 you can spend a lifetime returning to, to wander and wonder around.
Copyright Date
2009
Lccn
2009-018456
Dewey Decimal
823/.914
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22

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by crswa_71Feb 23, 2021
This writing poses the questions we all have but with a literary style that is succinct and a little mysterious
This is a well-made book. The binding is splendid. The paper is luxurious. This book is made to be read and studied. For those of us who remember spending hours in the library, reading, studying, writing and more reading will recognize the place that this volume holds on the best shelves
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by atomicpow_r_dJan 12, 2021
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The legendary Ballard may be at his best in his short stories. And this is all of them, so you can't go wrong. For those who want their "science fiction" (for lack of a better term) to go the extra mile.
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by bldick55Oct 09, 2023
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Between the great condition (better than even anticipated) and the unbeatable price for a copy of the hardback edition in such quality, this nearly 1200 page collection of Ballard's outstanding short fiction was more than worth the purchase.
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