CRASH

by Ballard, J.G

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New York. 1973. Farrar Straus Giroux. 1st American Edition. Trace Of A Triangular Sticker On Front Endpaper,Otherwise Very Good In Dustjacket. pages: 224 pages. Cover: Jacket design by Lawrence Ratzkin. keywords: Literature England Science Fiction. ISBN: 0374130728. This brilliant, startlingly original novel opens with the narrator recovering in the hospital after a car crash in which he has killed the husband of a young woman doctor, In his pain-filled dreams he finds himself dominated by strange sexual fantasies, and he determines to find the real meaning of this horrific experience. When he leaves the hospital, he revisits the scene of the crash, and meets the woman doctor. During their affair they begin an exploration of the motorcar in all its forms, conducting a variety of sexual experiments on the motorways spreading around London. They meet a violent and aggressive figure called Vaughan, a 'hoodlum scientist' who seems determined to die in a car crash with a famous film actress. Terrified of Vaughan, and yet under his spell, the narrator joins his entourage of racing drivers, drug addicts, and airport prostitutes. They take part in stock-car races, watch test vehicles being crashed at the Road Research Laboratory, and all the time are being carried closer to the sinister climax of the novel, a disquieting vision of the future in which sex and technology form a nightmare marriage. Violent and frightening, but always true to its subject, CRASH is a visionary portrait of the brutal, erotic, and overlit future that beckons ever more powerfully from the margins of the technological landscape. Mr. Ballard has written a compulsively readable tour de force, as hypnotic and baleful in its own way as was A CLOCKWORK ORANGE in its. . A master fantasist, J. G. Ballard is best noted for such novels as THE DROWNED WORLD, THE CRYSTAL WORLD, and THE WIND FROM NOWHERE. keywords: Literature England Science Fiction. inventory # 3156 ISBN: 0374130728.