| Author: | J. G. Ballard | ISBN: | 9781466856622 |
| Publisher: | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Publication: | July 15, 2014 |
| Imprint: | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Language: | English |
| Author: | J. G. Ballard |
| ISBN: | 9781466856622 |
| Publisher: | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
| Publication: | July 15, 2014 |
| Imprint: | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
| Language: | English |
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 in Concrete Island.
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 in Concrete Island.
