Extreme Metaphors

Product Description

A startling & at times unsettlingly prescient collection of J.G. Ballards greatest interviews. J.G. Ballard was a literary giant. His novels were unique & surprising. To the journalists & admirers who sought him out Ballard was the seer of Shepperton; his home the vantage from which he observed the rising suburban tide part of a changing society captured & second-guessed so plausibly in his fiction. Such acuity was not exclusive to his novels & as this book reminds us Ballards restive intelligence sharpened itself in dialogue. He entertained many with insights into the world as he saw it & speculated often correctly about its future. Some of these observations earned Ballard an oracular reputation & continue to yield an uncannily accurate commentary today. Now for the first time Extreme Metaphors collects the finest interviews of his career. Conversations with cultural figureheads such as Will Self Jon Savage Iain Sinclair & John Gray & collaborators like David Cronenberg are a reminder of his wit & humanity testament to Ballards profound worldliness as much as his otherworldly imagination. This collection is an indispensable tribute to one of recent historys most incisive & original thinkers.