{"product_id":"9780871403421","title":"Miracles of Life: Shanghai to Shepperton, an Autobiography","description":"\u003cp\u003eA final statement from the greatest clairvoyant of twentieth-century literature.\u003c\/p\u003e Never before published in America, this revelatory autobiography—hailed as “fascinating [and] amazingly lucid” (\u003cem\u003eGuardian\u003c\/em\u003e)—charts the remarkable story of James Graham Ballard, a man described by Martin Amis as “the most original English writer of the last century.” Beginning with his Shanghai childhood, \u003cem\u003eMiracles of Life\u003c\/em\u003e guides us from the deprivations of Lunghua Camp during World War II, which provide the back story for his best-selling \u003cem\u003eEmpire of the Sun\u003c\/em\u003e, to his arrival in war-torn England and his emergence as “the ideal chronicler of our disturbed modernity” (\u003cem\u003eObserver\u003c\/em\u003e). With prose of characteristic precision, Ballard movingly recalls his first attempts at science fiction, the 1970 American pulping of \u003cem\u003eThe Atrocity Exhibition\u003c\/em\u003e—which sprang from his fascination with JFK conspiracy theories—and his life as a single father after the premature death of his wife. “This book should make yet more converts to a cause that Ballard’s devotees have been pleading for years” (\u003cem\u003eIndependent\u003c\/em\u003e).","brand":"Liveright Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47101934403824,"sku":"9780871403421","price":25.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780871403421_p0.jpg?v=1763831254","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780871403421","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}