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Miracles Of Life

By: J G Ballard
Narrated by: Tim Pigott-Smith
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Summary

Shortlisted for the British Book Awards, Biography of the Year, 2009.

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.
©2008 J G Ballard (P)2008 HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, London UK
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"A particular delight of this lyrical autobiography lies in spotting the landscapes and events that appear subtly reconfigured in Ballard's fiction." ( Observer, Critics' Picks for 2008)
"The long-awaited memoirs of one of the most interesting British writers." ( Sunday Times, Picks for 2008)
"Unobtrusively well-written...and fascinating." ( Literary Review)

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Abridged, weirldy

Not a very long book so lord knows why it needed to be abridged, a fact that the product summary doesn't mention. The abridgement is clearly done with an eye towards the fans of Empire of the Sun and so includes the rather odd decision to basically lop off the final 20% of the story from the book. No abridgement of thost parts, they're just not there at all. Leaves the weird impression that for Ballard, life ended after the death of his wife and nothing else happened thereafter. A sad way to represent his final, and very moving, work.

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Be ware, this version does not contain the whole book.

Sadly this version does not contain the whole book.
There’s a second version on audio that may have the whole book.

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