By J. G. Ballard
On an afternoon in April, simply after 3 o'clock within the afternoon, Robert Maitland's automobile crashes over the concrete parapet of a high-speed road onto the island under, the place he's injured and, ultimately, trapped. What starts off as a nearly ludicrous drawback quickly becomes horror as Maitland―a wickedly smooth Robinson Crusoe―realizes that, regardless of facts of alternative population, this doomed terrain has turn into a replicate of his personal brain. looking the darkish outer rim of the typical, Ballard weaves deepest disaster into an intensely specular allegory.
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