Binding: Paperback
Description: 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.
Title: Concrete Island A Novel
Author(s): Ballard J. G.
Publisher: Picador
Barcode: 9781250171528
Pages: 176 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 6/12/2018
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction