Teaching The Crystal World: J.G. Ballard for Advanced High School Literature
Teaching The Crystal World: J.G. Ballard for Advanced High School Literature J.G. Ballard's The Crystal World doesn't hand readers an easy premise. A section of African rainforest is slowly, inexplicably crystallizing — trees, animals, buildings, and eventually people turning to something between glass and gemstone — and the novel refuses to resolve whether that's a…