The kindness of women
/ J.G. Ballard
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux , 2007, c1991
- 343 p. ; 21 cm
- Sequel to Empire of the Sun .
Young James returns to England at the end of World War II. He stumbles through medical study at Cambridge, trains briefly as an RAF pilot in Canada, and marries. When his wife dies suddenly, Jim is thrust into the violence and sexual promiscuity of the sixties.