Crash

J. G. Ballard

first published 1973 Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1994 224 pages

Universale Economica Feltrinelli

The definitive cult, post-modern novel – a shocking blend of violence, transgression and eroticism. When our narrator smashes his car into another and watches a man die in front of him, his sense of sexual possibilities in the world around him becomes detached. As he begins an affair with the dead man's wife, he finds himself drawn with increasing intensity to the mangled impacts of car crashes. Then he encounters Ro...

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Crash edition · 2023 · Feltrinelli · 205 pages · 9788807886362
Crash ebook · 2009 · HarperCollins · 9780007324309
Chao su xing zhui ji edition · 2003 · Shang zhou chu ban · 231 pages
Crash edition · 2001 · Picador · 223 pages
Crash audiobook · 1998 · Penguin Highbridge (Aud) · 2 pages · 9780140865479
Crash audiobook · 1997 · Books on Tape, Inc. · 9780913369807
Crash edition · 1995 · Vintage · 224 pages
CRASH paperback · 1995 · Vintage Books · 208 pages · 9780099334910
Crash edition · 1994 · Farrar, Straus and Giroux · 224 pages · 9780374524128
Crash. paperback · 1990 · TriadPaladin · 176 pages · 9780586089897
Crash edition · 1985 · Vintage Books · 223 pages
Crash edition · 1975 · Panther · 192 pages

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