![]() ![]() ![]() Turning conspicuously, as in Empire of the Sun, to the events of his own life, Ballard makes of experience fiction that is frankly startling and, at its most tender, powerfully moving. We follow, in all this, the progress of a bruised mind as it tries to make sense of the upheaval around it. He plunges into the maelstrom of the 1960s, an instigator and subject of every aspect of cultural, social and sexual revolution. Having finally settled into happy family life, his world is ripped apart by domestic tragedy. ![]() Jim tries, and fails, to find stability as a medical student at Cambridge, then as a trainee RAF pilot in Canada. It follows his return to post-war England, setting his childhood in the context of a lifetime. 'This is autobiography taken to the highest reaches of fiction, another wonderful novel of scorching power, shot through with honesty and lyricism' Observer The Kindness of Women continues the story of Jim, the young boy whose experiences in Japanese-occupied Shanghai were described in Empire of the Sun. ![]()
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