Miracles of Life

By: J.G. Ballard

Language: English

Quality: Like New

Genre: Autobiography - Biography, History,

ISBN: 97005922

SKU: BE500722935091

Pages: 278

Description: 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. In the intervening chapters Ballard creates a memoir that is both an enthralling narrative and a detailed examination of the events which would profoundly influence his work. Beginning with his early childhood spent exploring the vibrant surroundings of pre-war Shanghai, Ballard charts the course of his remarkable life from the deprivations and unexpected freedoms of the Lunghua Camp to his return to a Britain physically and psychologically crippled by war.