Concrete Island by J. G Ballard
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. Seeking the dark outer rim of the everyday, Ballard weaves private catastrophe into an intensely spectacular allegory.
Concrete Island by J. G Ballard
First edition
Condition: Very good, light edge and corner wear, slight scuffing at bottom of front cover, price sticker at rear cover. Softcover.
Publishing Info: Triad/ Panther, London, 1985
ISBN: 9780586041062
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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