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The Kindness of Women
The Kindness of Women
Author: J. G. Ballard
ISBN-13: 9780586210994
ISBN-10: 0586210997
Publication Date: 1992
Pages: 352
Rating:
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Publisher: Grafton
Book Type: Paperback
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The sequel to Empire of the Sun.

The story of Jim after Shanghai, England after the war and the cultural maelstrom of the 1960s...an astonishing visionary sequel.
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This sequel to Empire of the Sun begins in Shanghai toward the close of the war. Young James goes from the prison camp to England, a wrenching change. It takes years -- through prep school, medical school and the Royal Air Force -- for him to find his balance. He finally settles into a happy period of family life.
But a sudden tragedy shatters his idyllic world, and James falls headlong into the craze of the 1960s. It's through the kindness of women in his life that he's led to confront the traumas of his childhood.