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Crash

Written by: J. G. Ballard
Narrated by: Alastair Sill
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Publisher's Summary

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 Robert Vaughan, a former TV scientist turned nightmare angel of the expressway, who has gathered around him a collection of alienated crash victims and experiments with a series of erotic atrocities, each more sinister than the last. But Vaughan craves the ultimate crash: a head-on collision of blood, semen, engine coolant, and iconic celebrity. 

First published in 1973, Crash remains one of the most shocking novels of the second half of the 20th century and was made into an equally controversial film by David Cronenberg.

©2011 J. G. Ballard (P)2011 HarperCollins Publishers Limited

What the critics say

"Britain's number one living novelist." (John Sutherland, Sunday Times)
"One of the few genuine surrealists this country has produced, the possessor of a terrifying and exhilarating imagination." ( Guardian)

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I don't really know what I was expecting.

I'm starting to realize some books are easier to read than listen too, and I think this is one of them. Every sentence is alot to take in, and this audiobook just cruises forward no pun intended. I don't think a book I've ever read had this much cum in it before, not for me but if your a fucking werido then it's most definitely for you.

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Awesome listen!

Really enjoyed the story and characters. The author uses the word recapitulates a lot which I was very aware of. I would really recommend the audio over just reading the novel.

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