Concrete Island

A Novel

Fiction & Literature, Psychological, Literary
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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.

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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.

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