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Crash / J.G. Ballard.
Van Pelt Library PR6052.A46 C7 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ballard, J. G., 1930-2009.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Traffic accidents--Fiction.
- Traffic accidents.
- Traffic accident victims--Fiction.
- Traffic accident victims.
- Obsessive-compulsive disorder--Fiction.
- Obsessive-compulsive disorder.
- Women--Crimes against--Fiction.
- Women.
- Women--Crimes against.
- Male friendship--Fiction.
- Male friendship.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Psychological fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 223 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First Picador USA edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Picador, [2001]
- Summary:
- In this hallucinatory novel, an automobile provides the hellish tableau in which Vaughan, a "TV scientist" turned "nightmare angel of the highways," experiments with erotic atrocities among auto crash victims, each more sinister than the last. James Ballard, his friend and fellow obsessive, tells the story of this twisted visionary as he careens rapidly toward his own demise in an internationally orchestrated car crash with Elizabeth Taylor. A classic work of cutting-edge fiction, "Crash" explores both the disturbing implications and horrific possibilities of contemporary society's increasing dependence on technology as intermediary in human relations.
- ISBN:
- 0312420331
- 9780312420338
- OCLC:
- 48119070
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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