Format:
xiii, 156 pages
,
21 cm
Edition:
Second Picador paperback edition
ISBN:
9781250171528
,
1250171520
Content:
"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."--
Note:
Reprint. Originally published : New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, ©1973
,
"First published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux"--Title page verso
,
"with a new introduction by Neil Gaiman"--Title page
Language:
English
Keywords:
Fiktionale Darstellung
Author information:
Gaiman, Neil 1960-
Author information:
Ballard, J. G. 1930-2009
