Concrete Island - Softcover
Robert Maitland, a 35 year-old architect, is driving home from his central London office when his car has a blowout, it swerves and crashes into a traffic island lying below three converging motorways. Uninjured, Maitland climbs up the embankment to flag down a car. But he soon finds out that no-one in the rush-hour traffic will stop for him, and he is trapped on the island, where he remains.
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"A vision in both style and substance. The literary equivalent of Salvador Dali or Max Ernst."--The Washington Post Book World
"This is the excellent stuff of classic castaway adventure, stiffened here by contemporary overtones that call into question social values."--San Francisco Chronicle
"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
J G Ballard was born in 1930 in Shanghai, China. After the attack on Pearl Harbor the family were interned in a civilian camp. They returned to England in 1945. In 1956 Ballard's first story was published in New Worlds. His first novel The Drowned World was published in 1961. Empire of the Sun, a novel based on his own experiences in China, was published in 1984 and won the Guardian Fiction Prize, the James Tait Black Award and was filmed by Steven Spielberg.
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- PublisherVintage
- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 009933481X
- ISBN 13 9780099334811
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages176
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