Our informal reading group series continues with Crash by J.G.Ballard. A notoriously controversial and hallucinatory novel, Crash presents a concept of sexuality born out of perverse technology. In Crash, Ballard fetishizes the experience of head-on car collisions and illustrates a human desire for escapism from man-made imposed order, exploring the chaos of the mind and imagination.
Crash is not suitable for young readers as it contains explicit content.
Download: Crash, J.G.Ballard extracts for Site Gallery reading group
Copies of the book are available to loan from local libraries or to purchase from most bookshops.
Further recommended reading:
JG Ballard: The music he inspired, The Guardian
Dangerous Driving, Interview with J.G. Ballard, Frieze, Issue 34 May 1997
Sex and wheels: Zadie Smith on JG Ballard’s Crash, Zadie Smith, The Guardian, Friday 4 July 2014
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