‘One of the most sensitive and enigmatic novelists of the present day.’
Times Literary Supplement
‘Present in everything Ballard writes is that sense of a unique and profoundly original mind.’
ANGELA CARTER
Contents
Cover (#u2b914029-06eb-5a49-aa40-ed7035b2955b)
Title Page (#uf0389019-eeee-533e-800f-72d261ae01de)
Copyright (#ulink_fe02e549-6a89-5602-9c0d-ca9f4a5ea09a)
Praise (#u272eb1e7-3d56-53d2-8a2c-36ff4d06b92d)
1 FILM (#ulink_1c3bb4cb-5cb7-5c0b-aa98-05633d3e0487)
Casablanca, Brando and Mae West, Star Wars and Blue Velvet … (#ulink_1c3bb4cb-5cb7-5c0b-aa98-05633d3e0487)
2 LIVES
Nancy Reagan, Elvis, Howard Hughes and Hirohito …
3 THE VISUAL WORLD
Warhol, Hockney, Dali and the Surrealists …
4 WRITERS
Scott Fitzgerald, Henry Miller, the Marquis de Sade and William Burroughs …
5 SCIENCE
Einstein, the Gene Pool, Freud and Richard Feynman …
6 AUTOBIOGRAPHY
From Shanghai to Shepperton …
7 SCIENCE FICTION
Inner Space, Early Manifestos, and the Billion Year Spree …
8 IN GENERAL
Coca-Cola and Walt Disney, Mein Kampf and the Astronauts …
9 AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Memories of the Rising Sun …
Keep Reading (#ub49211b3-c3cc-59af-9f49-a0b80d2a824a)
Index
Acknowledgement (#ulink_6429f45f-76de-5850-ac86-e1c5286a4a04)
About the Author (#ulink_ecaae9e0-6539-5cfb-a25f-2f218ced69fa)
Also by the Author
About the Publisher
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