Yet again J. G. Ballard’s inimitable clairvoyance is on display in this timely, powerful story of a community shattered by a massive act of violence.

A massacre rocks a suburban utopia—thirty-two adults murdered, and their children missing—in
Running Wild, one of Ballard’s most dazzlingly subversive works of fiction. “To Ballard, lack of choice . . . is a dangerous state of being. In
Running Wild, it’s not the children who are doing the running; it is the society that raised them” (
San Francisco Chronicle).

Circa l’autore

J.G. Ballard was born in Shanghai in 1930 and lived in England from 1946 until his death in London in 2009. He is the author of nineteen novels, including Empire of the Sun, The Drought, and Crash, with many of them made into major films.