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Timothy Gray approved AndrewTheLott’s request to change the title of Concrete Island Tuesday, September 1 2009.
ConcreteIsland: A NovelIsland
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AndrewTheLott changed the title of Concrete Island Sunday, August 30 2009.
ConcreteIsland: A NovelIsland
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Shelfari edited the description of Concrete Island Saturday, August 1 2009.
On a day in April, just after three o'clock in the afternoon, Robert Maitland's car crashes over the concrete parapet of a high-speed highway onto the island below, where he is injured and, finally, trapped. What begins as an almost ludicrous predicament soon turns into horror as Maitland—a wickedly modern Robinson Crusoe—realizes that, despite evidence of other inhabitants, this doomed terrain has become a mirror of his own mind. Seeking the dark outer rim of the everyday, Ballard weaves private catastrophe into an intensely specular allegory.
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Shelfari edited the contributors of Concrete Island Tuesday, July 28 2009.
- Added a contributor: J. G. Ballard: (Primary Author)
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Shelfari edited the first sentence of Concrete Island Thursday, July 16 2009.
- SOON after three o'clock on the afternoon of April 22nd 1973, a 35-year-old architect named Robert Maitland was driving down the high-speed exit lane of the West-way interchange in central London.
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