One of the great allegorical novels of the twentieth century, one which places the car at the center of technologically acculturated concsciousness, Crash is one of the definitive mile-markers of the transition from modernism to post-modernism. A novel in the grand tradition of science fiction cautionary tale, Ballard's clinically precise language is pitch perfect in the creation and presentation of a milleau in which human sexuality is channelled through an eroticization of the automobile in which the act of driving becomes the equivalent of love making which climaxes in collision. (fair warning: during the reading of this book, you may find yourself feeling disoriented and uneasy when you get behind the wheel; driving may become difficult; you may need to pull over and collect yourself; you might have to just get out of the car and walk) As part of a special purchase, we've secured a healthy supply of this excellent UK edition (along with two other classic Ballard texts; see below) that we can now offer at a price so low that there's simply no excuse to put off reading this seminal text any longer.
Ballard's follow-up to Crash, Concrete Island extends the car-as-culture metaphor to include the highway system, in the middle of which we find our protagonists marooned on an island amidst the ceaseless traffic...
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Ballard's first major novel, The Drowned World contains a surrealistic - yet frighteningly realistic - portrait of a post-global-warming London and its surrounding environs. Ballard herein provides the first full scale representation of his unique ability to shape stunningly revealing psychological portraits by projecting the interior lives of the novel's protagonists onto the environments in which they find themselves...
This edition includes an interview, reading list, and notes on Ballard and his novels.
notable endorsements:
"Extraordinarily prescient.... Ballard is a prophet."—Philip Pullman
"One of the brightest stars in post-war fiction. This tale of strange and terrible adventure in a world of steaming jungles has an oppressive power reminiscent of Conrad."—Kingsley Amis
"The terrifying thing about Ballard is his logic; is this science fiction or history written ahead of its time?"—Len Deighton
Part of a special purchase, we've secured a healthy supply of this excellent UK edition (along with two other classic Ballard texts; see below) that we can now offer at a great price!
