Crash

by J. G. Ballard Narrated by Roger Hampton

Overview

An underground classic, Crash explores the disturbing potentialities of contemporary society's increasing dependence on technology as intermediary in human relations. In this hallucinatory novel, the car 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 then 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.

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

"In Ballard the dystopia is not hidden under anything. Nor is it (as with so many fictional dystopias) a vision of the future. It is not the subtext. It is the text..."—Zadie Smith, The New York Review of Books

"A work of very powerful originality. Ballard is among our finest writers of fiction."—Anthony Burgess

"Crash sensationally and scintillatingly succeeds."—Martin Amis

"The last great English avatar of the avant-garde."—Will Self

Product Details

BN ID:	2940169528428
Publisher:	Recorded Books, LLC
Publication date:	06/04/2019
Edition description:	Unabridged

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