The Disaster Area

Name: The Disaster Area
Brand: Goldsboro Books
SKU: 140QEYUO
Price: 350.0 GBP
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The Disaster Area

by J. G. Ballard

Publisher Jonathan Cape

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Publication date: January 1, 1967

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A near fine first edition in the original binding. In a good dust jacket, clipped, with minor wear along the edges and a small tear on the back cover.

About the book

The Disaster Area is a collection of short stories by J. G. Ballard. Contents: "Storm-bird, Storm-dreamer" "The Concentration City" "The Subliminal Man" "Now Wakes the Sea" "Minus One" "Mr F. is Mr F." "Zone of Terror" "Manhole 69" "The Impossible Man"

About the Author

J. G. Ballard

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. J.G. Ballard passed away in 2009.

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