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How not to read JG Ballard

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W hen JG Ballard died in 2009, aged 78, the broad outlines of his life were well known. He had published two autobiographical novels – the bestselling Empire of the Sun (1984), which draws on his teenage years in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp, and The Kindness of Women (1992), which makes use of episodes from his adulthood, including the premature death of his wife and his experience of single-handedly raising three children. There was also a late memoir, Miracles of Life (2008), which complic

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