Concrete Island
Author(s): J G Ballard
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.
Product Information
General Fields
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- : Picador USA
- : Picador USA
- : 0.181
- : 04 October 2001
- : 203mm X 140mm X 15mm
- : United States
- : books
Special Fields
- : J G Ballard
- : Paperback / softback
- : 823.914
- : 175