About the Book

A special limited edition of J. G. Ballard’s cult, post-modern and shocking novel

I knew that Vaughan could never really die in a car-crash, but would in some way be re-born through those twisted radiator grilles and cascading windshield glass.

The Collector’s Edition

A former TV scientist turned nightmare angel of the expressway, Robert Vaughan gathers around him a collection of alienated crash victims. Among them is James Ballard, our narrator, who is drawn into a series of erotic atrocities, each more sinister than the last. Vaughan craves the ultimate crash – a head on collision of blood, semen, engine coolant and iconic celebrity.

Alongside Ballard’s cult postmodern novel, this special edition, edited by Chris Beckett, includes never-before-seen reproductions of Ballard’s annotated manuscript pages, essays, stories and material that shine a new light on this modern masterpiece.

Product Details

• ISBN: 9780007378340
• ISBN 10: 0007378343
• Imprint: Fourth Estate
• On Sale: 04/06/2017
• Pages: 400
• List Price:49.99 CAD
• BISAC1 : FICTION / Literary
• BISAC2 : FICTION / Erotica / General
• BISAC3 : FICTION / Media Tie-In

J. G. Ballard

Biography

J. G. Ballard was born in 1930 in Shanghai. After internment in a civilian prison camp, his family returned to England in 1946. His 1984 bestseller ‘Empire of the Sun’ won the Guardian Fiction Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. His controversial novel ‘Crash’ was made into a film by David Cronenberg. His autobiography ‘Miracles of Life’ was published in 2008, and a collection of interviews with the author, ‘Extreme Metaphors’, was published in 2012. J. G. Ballard passed away in 2009.

Other Works by J. G. Ballard

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  Empire of the Sun (4th Estate Matchbook Classics)

  By J. G. Ballard

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  Crash: The Collector’s Edition

  By J. G. Ballard

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  High-Rise

  By J. G. Ballard