Concrete Island - by J G Ballard (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"Concrete Island pays twisted homage to Defoe's Robinson Crusoe. Newly reissued with an introduction from Neil Gaiman. 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."--<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b><i>Concrete Island</i> pays twisted homage to Defoe's <i>Robinson Crusoe</i>. Newly reissued with an introduction from Neil Gaiman.</b> <p/>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.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>A vision in both style and substance. The literary equivalent of Salvador Dali or Max Ernst.--<i>The Washington Post Book World <p/></i>This is the excellent stuff of classic castaway adventure, stiffened here by contemporary overtones that call into question social values.--<i>San Francisco Chronicle <p/></i>"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</p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>J. G. Ballard </b>is the author of numerous books, including <i>Empire of the Sun</i>, the underground classic <i>Crash</i>, and <i>The Kindness of Women</i>. He is revered as one of the most important writers of fiction to address the consequences of twentieth-century technology. He died in 2009.
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