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Concrete Island by Ballard, James G is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Concrete Island about?
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 in Concrete Island.
Who reads Concrete Island?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Ballard, James G
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780312420345
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Horror
- Rating
- 3.7 / 5 (3,920 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
Other editions & translations
- Concrete Island (1974)
- Concrete Island (1994)
- Concrete Island (2009)
- جزيرة خرسانية [Arabic] (1974)
- Concrete Island : (a Novel) (2018)
- Concrete Island : A Novel (1974)
- L'isola di Cemento (2007)
- L'isola di Cemento (2016)
- J. G. Ballard (2001)
- Concrete Island: A Novel (2001)
- Concrete Island (UK) (2013)
- Concrete Island (2001)
- Concrete Island : A Novel (2014)
- Concrete Island : A Novel (2013)
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