The Kindness of Women
Author(s): J. G. Ballard
The fascinating, and largely autobiographical, sequel to J G Ballard's prize-winning 'Empire of the Sun', that follows Jim to post-war England. 'The Kindness of Women' continues the story of the boy whose life in Japanese-occupied Shaghai was described so memorably in 'Empire of the Sun', it sets those traumatic events within the context of a lifetime as we follow the narrator, Jim, to England and suburban Shepperton after the war. Jim tries and fails to find stability as a medical student at Cambridge and a trainee RAF pilot in Canada. Then, after settling happily into family life, his world is ripped apart by domestic tragedy. He plunges into the maelstrom of the 1960s, an instigator and subject of every aspect of cultural, social and sexual revolution. All this and much more, we see as the attempt of a bruised mind to make sense of the upheaval around it.
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J.G. Ballard was born in 1930 in Shanghai. After internment in a civilian prison camp, he and his family returned to England in 1946. He published his first novel, 'The Drowned World, in 1961. His 1984 bestseller 'Empire of the Sun' won the Guardian Fiction Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. It was later filmed by Steven Spielberg. His last novel was 'Kingdom Come', published in 2006, and his memoir 'Miracles of Life' was published in 2008. Extreme Metaphors, a collection of interviews, will be published in 2012. J.G. Ballard died in 2009.
General Fields
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- : HarperCollins Publishers Australia
- : Flamingo
- : 01 September 1994
- : books
Special Fields
- : J. G. Ballard
- : Paperback
- : 352