Crash by Ballard, J. G.

Crash (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781250171511)

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Crash by Ballard, J. G.

Crash

$18.00
Crash by Ballard, J. G.

Crash

$18.00
Format: Paperback
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The Definitive Cult, Postmodern Novel--a Shocking Blend of Violence, Transgression, and Eroticism

Reissued with a New Introduction from Zadie Smith

When J. G. Ballard, our narrator, smashes his car into another and watches a man die in front of him, he finds himself drawn with increasing intensity to the mangled impacts of car crashes. Robert Vaughan, a former TV scientist turned nightmare angel of the expressway, has gathered around him a collection of alienated crash victims and experiments with a series of autoerotic atrocities, each more sinister than the last. But Vaughan craves the ultimate crash--a head-on collision of blood, semen, engine coolant, and iconic celebrity.

First published in 1973, Crash remains one of the most shocking novels of the twentieth century and was made into an equally controversial film by David Cronenberg.

Author: J. G. Ballard
ISBN-10: 1250171512
ISBN-13: 9781250171511
Publisher: Picador USA
Language: English
Published: 12/05/2017
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.50w x 0.60d
By J. G. Ballard
By J. G. Ballard
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J. G. BALLARD was born in 1930 in Shanghai. After internment in a civilian prison camp, his family returned to England in 1946. His 1984 bestseller Empire of the Sun won the Guardian Fiction Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. His controversial novel Crash was made into a film by David Cronenberg. His autobiography Miracles of Life was published in 2008, and a collection of interviews with the author, Extreme Metaphors, was published in 2012. J. G. Ballard passed away in 2009.

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