Miracles of Life
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'Miracles of Life' opens and closes in Shanghai, the city where J.G.Ballard was born, and where he spent the most of the Second World War interned with his family in a Japanese concentration camp.
J.G. Ballard was, for over fifty years, one of this countryâs most significant writers. Beginning with the events that inspired his classic novel, âEmpire of the Sunâ, in this revelatory autobiography he charts the course of his astonishing life.
âMiracles of Lifeâ takes us from the vibrant surroundings of pre-war Shanghai, to the deprivations and unexpected freedoms of Lunghua Camp, to Ballardâs arrival in a devastated Britain. Ballard recounts his first attempts at fiction and his part in the social and artistic revolutions of the 60s. He describes his friendships with figures as diverse as Kingsley Amis, Michael Moorcock and Eduardo Paolozzi alongside recollections of his domestic life in Shepperton â raising three children as a single father following the unexpected and premature death of his wife.
âMiracles of Lifeâ is both a captivating narrative of the experiences that have shaped this extraordinary writerâs works, his distinctive outlook and his original visions of the future, and is also an account of a remarkable life.
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J.G. Ballard was born in 1930 in Shanghai, where his father was a businessman. After internment in a civilian prison camp, he and his family returned to England in 1946. He published his first novel, The Drowned World, in 1961. His 1984 bestseller âEmpire of the Sunâ won the Guardian Fiction Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. It was later filmed by Steven Spielberg. His most recent novel is âKingdom Comeâ, published in 2006.
