The Disaster Area
The Disaster Area
Publisher Jonathan Cape
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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"Collapsible content
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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Book Condition & Notes
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.
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