Concrete Island: A Novel

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$34.10 - $40.17
UPC:
9780312420345
Maximum Purchase:
2 units
Binding:
Paperback
Publication Date:
10/5/2001
Release Date:
10/5/2001
Author:
J. G. Ballard
Language:
english
Edition:
1st

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Product Overview

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 Maitlanda wickedly modern Robinson Crusoerealizes 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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