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Concrete Island : A Novel by J. G. Ballard (2018, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherPicador
ISBN-101250171520
ISBN-139781250171528
eBay Product ID (ePID)239690410
Product Key Features
Book TitleConcrete Island : a Novel
Number of Pages176 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2018
TopicPsychological, General, Literary
GenreFiction
AuthorJ. G. Ballard
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.5 in
Item Weight5.3 Oz
Item Length8.2 in
Item Width5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2020-289674
Reviews"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, 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
Dewey Edition23
Dewey Decimal823 /.914
SynopsisConcrete 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.
LC Classification NumberPR6052.A46C6 2018
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