Crash
by J.G. Ballard
ISBN: 0374130728
ISBN-13: 9780374130725
Format: Hardcover
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Summary
Critics have labeled Ballard's classic "pornographic"-both as criticism and as praise. It is the story of a man obsessed with sex who is drawn into a demimonde of individuals who combine car crashes and drugs with a variety of sexual acts. A disturbing document on the influence of technology and sexuality in culture, this is the first in a loose trilogy of novels-"Concrete Island" and "High Rise" are the other two-that examine Ballard's view of "modern life."
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"[E]xplores the erotic significance of the automobile accident....[T]he narrator..., in the course of the book, and with the help of some like-minded characters, works this stark sex-death equation through all its possible permutations." -- Tom Shone
-- New Yorker
"I believe in the beauty of the car crash, in the peace of the submerged forest, in the excitements of the deserted holiday beach, in the elegance of automobile graveyards, in the mystery of multi-storey car parks, in the poetry of abandoned hotels." -- J.G. Ballard
Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
Published date: 1973
Pages: 223
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Crash
J. G. Ballard
Farrar Straus & Giroux (T), 1973-09. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Binding tight and straight. Pages clean and unmarked. Bottom edge of jacket along the back has yellow stains. ( more information) Offered by Page Master Used Books (United States)
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Crash
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Farrar Straus & Giroux (T), 1973-09. Hardcover. yellow cloth boards/new DJ. as pictured and described,hardbound with price clipped dust jacket ( more information) Offered by morebooks2 (United States)
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Crash
Ballard, J. G
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1973. Book has four inch piece of masking tape on the front pastedown close to the hinge, probably could be removed but appears to be hiding a tear in the paper underneath, a minor flaw, otherwise book is VG. Dustjacket has minor shelfwear but VG+. Stated First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good -/Very Good +. ( more information) Offered by Randy Burns (United States)
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Crash
Ballard, J.G
New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1973 Octavo (5 1/2" x 8 1/8"), gray pasteboard backed w/black cloth; silver lettering on spine, 223 pp. + [1]. Dustjacket illustration by Lawrence Ratzkin. Small tear to bottom edge of dj's front panel w/crease extending from tear about 3 1/2" to edge bottom edge; moderate tanning to white areas of dj; moderate soiling to page edges. From dj notes: "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." Basis for film of same title. . First U.S. Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Illus. by Ratzkin, Lawrence. ( more information) Offered by Brand Bookstore (United States)
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BALLARD, J. G
NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1973. Hardcover. 0374130728 . Made into the 1996 film. First printing of the American edition. Light impression on front paste-down where a sticker was removed, else about fine in a near fine (thin vertical line of discoloration along the front flap edge and also along the rear panel edge) dust jacket. . ( more information) Offered by Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
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CRASH
Ballard, J.G
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. ( more information) Offered by Zeno's (United States)
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Good. Usually ships same day. Great Bargain ( more information) Offered by UPB Books (United States)
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Crash
Ballard J G
Farrar Straus Giroux NY, 1973. Brodart installed after some yellowing of DJ at edges. 1st US Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. ( more information) Offered by FAB BOOKS (United States)
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Crash
Ballard,J.G
New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux, 1973 First Edition First Printing. Cloth. Fine/Fine. Hardcover. ( more information) Offered by Always Superior Books (United States)
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Crash
J G Ballard
Farrar, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Good. Size: Octavo (standard book size). This is the first USA edition. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Dust Jacket un-clipped. ISBN: 0374130728. ( more information) Offered by Mr Pickwick's Fine Old Books (Australia)
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Crash
Ballard, J. G
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1973. First Printing of the First U.S. Edition, with the publisher's First American Edition statement listed on the copyright page. In fine condition; and in a fine dust jacket, with a couple short closed tears and light edge wear. . First Edition. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. Fine/Fine. ( more information) Offered by Idler Fine Books ABA, IOBA. (United States)
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