Crash: The Collector’s Edition

Crash: The Collector’s Edition

by J. G. Ballard and Chris Beckett
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 06/04/2017

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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.

ISBN:
9780008257316
9780008257316
Category:
Contemporary fiction
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
06-04-2017
Language:
English
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Chris Beckett

Chris Beckett was born in London but grew up in Ethiopia. His second collection of poems, Ethiopia Boy, was published by Carcanet/Oxford Poets in 2013. Sketches from the Poem Road, a collaboration with Japanese artist Isao Miura, was shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Award 2015. His translations (with Alemu Tebeje and others) have been published in Modern Poetry in Translation, PN Review, The Missing Slate and Asymptote Journal. With Gale Burns, he co-hosts The Shuffle reading series in Covent Garden. He is a trustee of the Anglo-Ethiopian Society and the Poetry Society.

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