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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 Maitlanda wickedly modern Robinson Crusoerealizes 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.

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    A Paperback / softback by J G Ballard, Neil Gaiman

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      Publisher: Picador USA
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 12/06/2018
      ISBN13: 9781250171528, 978-1250171528
      ISBN10: 1250171520

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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 Maitlanda wickedly modern Robinson Crusoerealizes 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.

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