{"product_id":"extreme-metaphors-9780007454853","title":"Extreme Metaphors","description":"\u003cp\u003eA startling and at times unsettlingly prescient collection of J.G. Ballards greatest interviews. J.G. Ballard was a literary giant. His novels were unique and surprising. To the journalists and 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 and second-guessed so plausibly in his fiction. Such acuity was not exclusive to his novels and  as this book reminds us  Ballards restive intelligence sharpened itself in dialogue. He entertained many with insights into the world as he saw it  and speculated  often correctly  about its future. Some of these observations earned Ballard an oracular reputation  and 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 and John Gray  and collaborators like David Cronenberg  are a reminder of his wit and 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 and original thinkers.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67924220674101,"sku":"ByrdShop_0007454856","price":494.41,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780007454853.jpg?v=1794130920","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/extreme-metaphors-9780007454853","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}