Concrete Island

by J. G. Ballard

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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.
  • ISBN10 1466856629
  • ISBN13 9781466856622
  • Publish Date 15 July 2014 (first published 1 January 1974)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Imprint Farrar, Straus and Giroux
  • Format eBook
  • Language English