Concrete Island : A Novel in Trade Paperback by J. G. Ballard

“Visionary of both style and substance . . . the literary equivalent of Salvador Dalí or Max Ernst.” The Washington Post Book World

On a day in April, just after three o'clock in the afternoon, Robert Maitland's car crashes over the concrete parapet of a high-speed highway onto the island below, where he is injured and, finally, trapped. What begins as an almost ludicrous predicament soon turns into horror as Maitland―a wickedly modern Robinson Crusoe―realizes that, despite evidence of other inhabitants, this doomed terrain has become a mirror of his own mind. Seeking the dark outer rim of the everyday, Ballard weaves private catastrophe into an intensely specular allegory.

“Ballard's novels are complex, obsessive, frequently poetic, and always disquieting chronicles of nature rebelling against humans, of the survival of barbarism in a world of mechanical efficiency, of ethropy, anomie, breakdown, ruin . . . The blasted landscapes that his characters inhabit are both external settings and states of mind.” Luc Sante

About the Author

J. G. Ballard is the author of numerous books, including Empire of the Sun, the underground classic Crash, and The Kindness of Women. He is revered as one of the most important writers of fiction to address the consequences of twentieth-century technology. His latest book is Super-Cannes. He died in 2009.

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  • Weight
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  • SKU
    9780312420345

This is a brand new, trade size paperback book.  Softcover, 176 pages.

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  • Author
    J.G. Ballard
  • ISBN-10
    031242034X
  • ISBN
    9780312420345
  • Publisher
    Picador
  • Format
    Trade Paperback
  • Publication Date
    2001
  • Language
    English
  • Condition
    Brand New
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