The Magician and his Physician
“In October 2008, before his death, (JG) Ballard’s literary agent Margaret Hanbury brought a manuscript from Ballard with the working title Conversations with My Physician: The Meaning, if Any, of Life to the Frankfurt Book Fair. The physician in question is oncologist Professor Jonathan Waxman of Imperial College, London, who was treating Ballard for prostate cancer. While it is in part a book about cancer, and Ballard’s struggle with it, it reportedly moves on to broader themes. Hanbury is in conversation with publishers.”