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Crash. (Ballard novel) Crash is a novel by English author J. G. Ballard, first published in 1973 with cover designed by Bill Botten. It follows a group of car-crash fetishists who become sexually aroused by staging and participating in car accidents, inspired by the famous crashes of celebrities.
J. G. Ballard. James Graham Ballard (15 November 1930 – 19 April 2009) [2] was an English novelist and short story writer, satirist and essayist known for psychologically provocative works of fiction that explore the relations between human psychology, technology, sex and mass media. [3] Ballard first became associated with New Wave science ...
Crash is a 1996 Canadian drama film written, produced and directed by David Cronenberg, based on J. G. Ballard's 1973 novel of the same name.Starring James Spader, Deborah Kara Unger, Elias Koteas, Holly Hunter and Rosanna Arquette, it follows a film producer who, after surviving a car crash, becomes involved with a group of symphorophiliacs who are aroused by car crashes and tries to rekindle ...
The Atrocity Exhibition is an experimental novel of linked stories or "condensed novels" by British writer J. G. Ballard . The book was originally published in the UK in 1970 by Jonathan Cape. After a 1970 edition by Doubleday & Company had already been printed, Nelson Doubleday Jr. personally cancelled the publication and had the copies ...
High-Rise is a 1975 novel by British writer J. G. Ballard. [1] The story describes the disintegration of a luxury high-rise building as its affluent residents gradually descend into violent chaos. As with Ballard's previous novels Crash (1973) and Concrete Island (1974), High-Rise inquires into the ways in which modern social and technological ...
The Complete Short Stories of J. G. Ballard: Volume 1 is a short story collection by J. G. Ballard, published in 2006. The collection is the first installment of the J. G. Ballard's complete collection, followed by The Complete Short Stories of J. G. Ballard: Volume 2. Stories. This first book of the two-part series contains the following stories:
C. Cocaine Nights. Concrete Island. Crash (Ballard novel) The Crystal World.
The Crystal World is a science fiction novel by English author J. G. Ballard, published in 1966. [1] The novel tells the story of a physician trying to make his way deep into the jungle to a secluded leprosy treatment facility. While trying to make it to his destination, his chaotic path leads him to try to come to terms with an apocalyptic ...