Concrete Island
J. G. Ballard$15.30
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Concrete Island pays twisted homage to Defoe's Robinson Crusoe. Newly reissued with an introduction from Neil Gaiman.
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.Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: 06/12/2018
ISBN: 9781250171528
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.60d