Concrete Island - Hardcover
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.
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"Visionary of both style and substance . . . the literary equivalent of Salvador Dali or Max Ernst."--"The Washington Post Book World" "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" "
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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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- PublisherJonathan Cape Ltd
- Publication date1974
- ISBN 10 0224009702
- ISBN 13 9780224009706
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages176
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Book Description First British edition and first printing. Hardcover. 176 pages. An earlier novel from the author of "The Empire of the Sun," "High Rise," and "Crash." A very good copy with some foxing to the page edges and in a very good price clipped dust jacket that has some light wear. Seller Inventory # 198212
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Book Description Hardback. Condition: Collectable - Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Good+/Quite Good 1st impression 1st ed 1974 Cape hardback, unclipped DJ, Bill Botten jacket design. Untidy tears to top edge of jacket, approx 2cm to top front of DJ spine, almost 4cm to top rear corner of DJ and 1.5cm to top rear edge close to spine, 1cm closed tear lower front edge, some edge-wear and small chips to top edge of DJ with patches of spotting to insides of DJ, spotting to page edges, unmarked. Size: 140\nx 200mm. 176 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Fiction; Contemporary Fiction; ISBN: 0224009702. ISBN/EAN: 9780224009706. The photos provided are of our own book, further photos may be arranged upon request. Inventory No: 085569. Seller Inventory # 085569
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