Concrete Island

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Harper Perennial, 2008 - Fiction - 204 pages
Robert Maitland is driving home from when a blow-out sends his Jaguar hurtling out of control. Smashing through a barrier he finds himself on a traffic island below three motorways. When he tries to climb the embankment or flag-down a car for help it proves impossible - and he finds himself imprisoned on the concrete island.

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About the author (2008)

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.