The Crystal World , J. G. Ballard's fourth novel, which established his reputation as a writer of extraordinary talent and imaginative powers, tells the story of a physician specializing in the treatment of leprosy who is invited to a small outpost in the interior of Africa. Finding the roadways blocked, he takes to the river, and embarks on a frightening journey through a strange petrified forest whose area expands daily, affecting not only the physical environment but also its inhabitants.
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Review
Something magical and not to be missed' GuardianBeautifully rendered ... Ballard the poet in full ecstatic blast'Anthony BurgessOf all the unknown regions Ballard's imagination has opened up, this crystalline forest is the most haunting' GuardianA haunting vision of diseased beauty ... Ballard sustains it with extraordinary intensity' ObserverBallard transports us once more into his own mystical, glittering and poetic universe' Sunday TelegraphThe terrifying thing about Ballard is his logic; is this science fiction or history written ahead of its time?' Len Deighton
About the Author
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 novelCrash' was made into a film by David Cronenberg. His autobiography Miracles of Life' was published in 2008, and a collection of interviews with the author,Extreme Metaphors', was published in 2012. J. G. Ballard passed away in 2009.
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The Crystal World , J. G. Ballard's fourth novel, which established his reputation as a writer of extraordinary talent and imaginative powers, tells the story of a physician specializing in the treatment of leprosy who is invited to a small outpost in the interior of Africa. Finding the roadways blocked, he takes to the river, and embarks on a frightening journey through a strange petrified forest whose area expands daily, affecting not only the physical environment but also its inhabitants. **
Review
Something magical and not to be missed' GuardianBeautifully rendered ... Ballard the poet in full ecstatic blast'Anthony BurgessOf all the unknown regions Ballard's imagination has opened up, this crystalline forest is the most haunting' GuardianA haunting vision of diseased beauty ... Ballard sustains it with extraordinary intensity' ObserverBallard transports us once more into his own mystical, glittering and poetic universe' Sunday TelegraphThe terrifying thing about Ballard is his logic; is this science fiction or history written ahead of its time?' Len DeightonAbout the Author
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 novelCrash' was made into a film by David Cronenberg. His autobiographyMiracles of Life' was published in 2008, and a collection of interviews with the author,Extreme Metaphors', was published in 2012. J. G. Ballard passed away in 2009.