- English Novelists, Influence, Biography, World War, 1939-1945
'Miracles of Life' opens and closes in Shanghai, the city where J. G. Ballard was born, and where he spent the most of the Second World War interned with his family in a Japanese concentration camp.In the intervening chapters Ballard creates a memoir that is both an enthralling narrative and a detailed examination of the events which would profoundly influence his work.
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- Author
- J. G. Ballard
- First published
- 2008
- Pages
- 278
- Publisher
- HarperCollins, Fourth Estate
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780007270729
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James Graham Ballard was born and raised in the International Settlement in Shanghai, China to a chemist. In 1943 the Japanese occupied the International Settlement and Ballard's family was sent to the Lunghua Civilian Assembly Center, where they were interned for two years until the end of World War II. In 1946, Ballard went to England with his mother and sister, and stayed on in England after his mother and sister returned to China to rejoin his father. In 1949 he went to King's College, Cambridge to study medicine, but he began writing fiction and abandoned medicine in 1952 to pursue writing. In 1953 he joined the Air Force and was sent to the Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan to train. There he di
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