{"product_id":"crash-9781250171511","title":"Crash","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Definitive Cult, Postmodern Novel--a Shocking Blend of Violence, Transgression, and Eroticism \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eReissued with a New Introduction from Zadie Smith\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen J. G. Ballard, our narrator, smashes his car into another and watches a man die in front of him, he finds himself drawn with increasing intensity to the mangled impacts of car crashes. Robert Vaughan, a former TV scientist turned nightmare angel of the expressway, has gathered around him a collection of alienated crash victims and experiments with a series of autoerotic 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFirst published in 1973, \u003ci\u003eCrash\u003c\/i\u003e remains one of the most shocking novels of the twentieth century and was made into an equally controversial film by David Cronenberg.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJ. G. BALLARD\u003c\/b\u003e was born in 1930 in Shanghai. After internment in a civilian prison camp, his family returned to England in 1946. His 1984 bestseller \u003ci\u003eEmpire of the Sun\u003c\/i\u003e won the Guardian Fiction Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. His controversial novel \u003ci\u003eCrash\u003c\/i\u003e was made into a film by David Cronenberg. His autobiography \u003ci\u003eMiracles of Life \u003c\/i\u003ewas published in 2008, and a collection of interviews with the author, \u003ci\u003eExtreme \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eMetaphors\u003c\/i\u003e, was published in 2012. J. G. Ballard passed away in 2009.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Picador USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50600308310290,"sku":"9781250171511","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_9ea29315-3966-4d63-a188-cb7e6538797a.jpg?v=1773149852","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/crash-9781250171511","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}