{"product_id":"the-atrocity-exhibition-9781889307039","title":"The Atrocity Exhibition","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Atrocity Exhibition\u003c\/i\u003e is an experimental novel of linked\u003cbr\u003estories or \"condensed novels\" by British writer J.G. Ballard. Genre is\u003cbr\u003eexperimental, science-fiction, dystopian, speculative fiction.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt is J.G. Ballard's most complex, disturbing work, with fabulous photos by Ana Barrado and artwork by Phoebe Gloeckner.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJ.G. Ballard: \u003c\/b\u003eBorn in Shanghai November 15, 1930, James Graham Ballard\u003cbr\u003espent the first 15 years of his life in China. Interned in a Japanese camp\u003cbr\u003eduring World War II, he was repatriated to England at the age of sixteen. After\u003cbr\u003estudying medicine at Cambridge, he sold his first \"speculative fiction\" story\u003cbr\u003eto \u003ci\u003eNew Worlds\u003c\/i\u003e in 1956 and began writing a series of planetary disaster\u003cbr\u003enovels, ultimately focusing on the \u003ci\u003einner\u003c\/i\u003e landscape in psychopathological\u003cbr\u003eclassics such as \u003ci\u003eCrash\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eHigh-Rise\u003c\/i\u003e. In 1987 Steven Spielberg\u003cbr\u003emade a movie of his best-selling autobiographical work, \u003ci\u003eEmpire of the Sun\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003eFor the past 30 years J.G. Ballard has lived in Shepperton, England, home of\u003cbr\u003ethe famous film studios. {J.G. Ballard died April 19, 2009 in London, U.K.] \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Re\/Search Publications","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50614992863506,"sku":"9781889307039","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_70d2922d-0737-4a47-b1f9-9f2202c98b89.jpg?v=1732470960","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-atrocity-exhibition-9781889307039","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}