Concrete Island by J G Ballard
Robert Maitland, a 35 year-old architect, is driving home from his central London office when his car has a blowout, it swerves and crashes into a traffic island lying below three converging motorways. Uninjured, Maitland climbs up the embankment to flag down a car. But he soon finds out that no-one in the rush-hour traffic will stop for him, and he is trapped on the island, where he remains.
J G Ballard was born in 1930 in Shanghai, China. After the attack on Pearl Harbor the family were interned in a civilian camp. They returned to England in 1945. In 1956 Ballard's first story was published in New Worlds. His first novel The Drowned World was published in 1961. Empire of the Sun, a novel based on his own experiences in China, was published in 1984 and won the Guardian Fiction Prize, the James Tait Black Award and was filmed by Steven Spielberg.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780099334811 |
| ISBN 10 | 009933481X |
| Title | Concrete Island |
| Author | J G Ballard |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 1994-07-21 |
| Number of pages | 176 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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