Concrete Island by J. G Ballard
First edition
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. Ballard weaves private catastrophe into an intensely spectacular allegory.
Concrete Island by J. G Ballard
Format: First edition, hardcover
Condition: Near fine in very good plus dust jacket. Book has previous owner's unobtrusive stamp on front page else fine.Dust jacket has slight dust shadow on rear cover, price clipped and slight edge wear. Hardcover.
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Publishing Info: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, New York, 1974
Language: English
ISBN - 13: 9780374128074
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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 in Concrete Island 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 spectacular allegory.
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J.G. Ballard BBC documentary
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