Promotional Information

From the author of the Sunday Times bestseller 'Cocaine Nights' comes an acclaimed backlist title -- in which suburban London is transformed into an exotic dreamworld -- now reissued in new cover style. / J.G. Ballard has been at the forefront of modern British fiction for over three decades, achieving remarkable critical acclaim and commercial success / First published in 1979, The Unlimited Dream Company is an astonishing literary fantasy -- in which a familiar landscape becomes extraordinary through his distinctively bizarre vision -- now being reissued as a Flamingo Modern Classic as part of a repackaging of Flamingo's Ballard backlist

About the Author

J.G. Ballard was born in 1930 in Shanghai, where his father was a businessman. After internment in a civilian prison camp, he and his family returned to England in 1946. His 1984 bestseller Empire of the Sun won the Guardian Fiction Prize and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. It was later filmed by Steven Spielberg. His most recent novel is the Sunday Times bestseller, Cocaine Nights. 'The most interesting living English writer.' Guardian

Reviews

'A remarkable piece of invention, a flight from the world of the familiar and the real into the exotic universe of dream and desire!dense and erotic and magical, a pleasure to read.' malcolm bradbury, New York Times 'Extraordinary!there is no doubt of the intensity and originality of the imagination that conceived the scenes of Shepperton transformed into a paradise!far beyond the scope of most novelists.' Spectator 'A remarkable fantasist!Ballard's eloquence is as lush as the flowering vines he hangs from his multi-storey garages.' Observer