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The cult status of Crash has intensified since its original publication in 1973, making it a classic of underground literature. 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 crash victims, each more sinister than the last; ultimately, he craves a union of blood, semen, and engine coolant in a head-on collision with Elizabeth Taylor.
A writer of enormous inventive powers, Ballard has, like Calvino, a remarkable gift for filling the empty, deprived spaces of modern life with the invisible cities and the wonder worlds of the imagination.
—Malcolm Bradbury
The New York Times Book Review
A writer of enormous inventive powers, Ballard has, like Calvino, a remarkable gift for filling the empty, deprived spaces of modern life with the invisible cities and the wonder worlds of the imagination.
—Malcolm Bradbury
The New York Times Book Review
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