J. G. Ballard

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

New York

In this sequel to his award-winning Empire of the Sun, young James returns to England at the end of World War II. He stumbles through medical study at Cambridge, trains briefly as an RAF pilot in Canada, and marries. When his wife dies suddenly, Jim is thrust into the violence and sexual promiscuity of the sixties. Penetrating and wise, J. G. Ballard's biting social commentary and pushing of boundaries make this semi-autobiographical novel a small classic.

The Kindness of Women

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Virginia

Features a man who finds himself drawn into a network of drugs, pornography, and murder in a Spanish resort

Cocaine Nights

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Pennsylvania

Published in 1991, this semi-autobiographical novel is a daring masterpiece from “one of the most important and intelligent voices in contemporary fiction” (Susan Sontag). “Rueful the way Primo Levi’s work was” (New York Times Book Review), the novel follows fifteen-year-old Jim Graham as he leaves the ruins of postwar Shanghai, only to find that he cannot escape his own obsession with death.

Illinois

An unemployed advertising executive investigates why the deranged man who shot his father in a shopping mall was released without being charged, in this novel from the late author of Empire of the Sun. 10,000 first printing.

Kingdom Come

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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Ohio

"Harsh and ingenious! High Rise is an intense and vivid bestiary, which lingers unsettlingly in the mind." —Martin Amis, New Statesman When a class war erupts inside a luxurious apartment block, modern elevators become violent battlegrounds and cocktail parties degenerate into marauding attacks on “enemy” floors. In this visionary tale, human society slips into violent reverse as once-peaceful residents, driven by primal urges, re-create a world ruled by the laws of the jungle.

High Rise

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Ballard here writes a brilliant hybrid of autobiography and fiction. The sequel to The Empire of the Sun, this work puts his earlier account of a boy’s experiences in occupied Shanghai in the context of a lifetime. Ballard’s eye has never been more cinematic, and his writing, especially in the love scenes, is a masterful blend of the raw and the tender.

New Mexico

"A remarkable piece of invention, a flight from the world of the familiar and the real into the exotic universe of dream and desire." —New York Times Book Review When a light aircraft crashes into the Thames at Shepperton, the young pilot who struggles to the surface minutes later seems to have come back from the dead. Within hours everything in the dormitory suburb is transformed. Vultures invade rooftops, luxuriant tropical vegetation overruns the quiet avenues, and the local inhabitants are propelled by the young man’s urgent visions through ecstatic sexual celebrations toward an apocalyptic climax. In this characteristically inventive novel Ballard displays to devastating effect the extraordinary imagination that has established him as one of the twentieth century’s most visionary writers.

The Unlimited Dream Company

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Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

The classic, award-winning novel, made famous by Steven Spielberg's film, tells of a young boy's struggle to survive World War II in China.Jim is separated from his parents in a world at war. To survive, he must find a strength greater than all the events that surround him.Shanghai, 1941 -- a city aflame from the fateful torch of Pearl Harbor. In streets full of chaos and corpses, a young British boy searches in vain for his parents. Imprisoned in a Japanese concentration camp, he is witness to the fierce white flash of Nagasaki, as the bomb bellows the end of the war...and the dawn of a blighted world.Ballard's enduring novel of war and deprivation, internment camps and death marches, and starvation and survival is an honest coming-of-age tale set in a world thrown utterly out of joint.

Empire of the Sun

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Florida

When a bomb goes off at Heathrow it looks like a random act of violence to psychologist David Markham, until he discovers that his ex-wife Laura is a victim. He starts to investigate London's fringe protest movements, focusing on a group based in the comfortable estate of Chelsea Marina.

Millennium People

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The book is in good condition has been rude. There’s a small dent on the side, but it’s still good. All the pictures are also there not nothing. No pictures or taken off. Chapters are still there.

Texas

Coming in March 2016 from acclaimed director Ben Wheatley, a major motion picture adaptation of J. G. Ballard's compelling and unnerving tale of what happens when life in a luxury apartment building descends into chaos, starring Tom Hiddleston, Jeremy Irons, Sienna Miller, Luke Evans and Elisabeth Moss.

'Later, as he sat on his balcony eating the dog, Dr Robert Laing reflected on the unusual events that had taken place within this huge apartment building during the previous three months.'



Within the walls of a high-tech forty-storey high-rise, the residents are hell-bent on an orgy of sex and destruction, answering to primal urges that their utopian surroundings can't satisfy. The high-rise is a would-be paradise turned dystopia, ruled by intimidation and violence, and, as the residents organize themselves for war, floor against floor, no one wants it to stop ...

High-Rise [Film Tie-in Edition]

Excellent condition, previous owners bookplate.

A war-ravaged Beirut is the setting for the title story of this visionary collection, a tale in which a young street fighter inadvertently discovers how to bring an to the bloodshed only to find that his solution is all too effective as far as some supposedly neutral observers are concerned. Other stories feature an assassination plot against an American astronaut, the leader of an authoritarian religious movement; a man who is destroyed by a car crash and resolves never to leave his apartment again; and the survivor of a toxic-waste ship wrecked on a deserted Caribbean island.

War Fever

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Excellent condition, bookplate from previous owner, me lol!

At Port-la-Nouvelle, on the parched terrain of central Africa, Dr. Mallory watches as his clinic fails and dreams of discovering a third Nile that will make the Sahara bloom. When there is a trickle on the local airstrip, and soon a river, the obsessed Mallory claims it as his own creation and sets out for the river's source.

The Day of Creation

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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

By the Author of Empire of the Sun and Crash

Chronopolis and other stories

North Carolina

Shanghai to Shepperton, an Autobiography 

Miracles of Life

Kansas

The Crystal World 

Anthony Burgess

First published in 1978, this collection of nineteen of Ballard's best short stories is as timely and informed as ever. His tales of the human psyche and its relationship to nature and technology, as viewed through a strong microscope, were eerily prescient and now provide greater perspective on our computer-dominated culture. Ballard's voice and vision have long served as a font of inspiration for today's cyber-punks, the authors and futurist who brought the information age into the mainstream.

The Best Short Stories of J. G. Ballard

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Martin Amis

Oversized Paperback (4 to 6 lbs)

Collects all ninety-two of the late author's stories -- including "Prima Belladonna," "Dead Time," and "The Index" -- which span five decades and explore everything from musical orchids to human cannibalism to the secret history of World War III.

The Complete Stories of J. G. Ballard

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Michigan

Over 30 great war stories by famous authors 

Great Second World War Stories

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Eric Arnesen

Robert G. Barrows

Michael Les Benedict

Ballard C. Campbell

W. Bernard. Carlson

Stacy A. Cordery

Ruth C. Crocker

Roger Daniels

Edmund J. Danziger

Leslie H. Fishel

Joseph A. Fry

Lewis L. Gould

Ellen M. Litwicki

Worth Robert Miller

Glenn Porter

Slight bend in top of back cover (doesn’t appear to be permanent). Otherwise textbook is in excellent condition. Completely clean throughout. Please see photos. 

Connecticut

History

Perspectives on the Origins of Modern America

The United States that entered the twentieth century was vastly different from the nation that emerged from the Civil War. Industrialization, mass immigration, the growing presence of women in the work force, and the rapid advance of the cities had transformed American society. Broad in scope, The Gilded Age brings together sixteen original essays that offer lively syntheses of modern scholarship while making their own interpretive arguments. These engaging pieces allow students to consider the various societal, cultural and political factors that make studying the Gilded Age crucial to our understanding of America today. Charles W. Calhoun connects all of these essays with a comprehensive introduction that places each article in an understandable historical context. For the second edition of this successful book, each essay was revised and three new pieces have been added that explore technology, consumerism, intellectual life, and race in late nineteenth century America.

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J. G. Ballard

The Kindness of Women

J. G. Ballard

Cocaine Nights

J. G. Ballard

The Kindness of Women

J. G. Ballard

Kingdom Come

J. G. Ballard

High Rise

J. G. Ballard

The Kindness of Women

J. G. Ballard

The Unlimited Dream Company

J. G. Ballard

Empire of the Sun

J. G. Ballard

Millennium People

J. G. Ballard

High-Rise [Film Tie-in Edition]

J. G. Ballard

War Fever

J. G. Ballard

The Day of Creation

J. G. Ballard

Cocaine Nights

J. G. Ballard

Cocaine Nights

J. G. Ballard

Chronopolis and other stories

J. G. Ballard

Miracles of Life

J. G. Ballard

The Crystal World

J. G. Ballard; Anthony Burgess

The Best Short Stories of J. G. Ballard

J. G. Ballard; Martin Amis

The Complete Stories of J. G. Ballard

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Great Second World War Stories

Eric Arnesen; Robert G. Barrows; Michael Les Benedict; Ballard C. Campbell; W. Bernard. Carlson; Stacy A. Cordery; Ruth C. Crocker; Roger Daniels; Edmund J. Danziger; Leslie H. Fishel; Joseph A. Fry; Lewis L. Gould; Ellen M. Litwicki; Worth Robert Miller; Glenn Porter

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