An edition of Crash (1973)

Crash

1st Vintage Books ed.
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An edition of Crash (1973)

Crash

1st Vintage Books ed.
  • 2.5 (4 ratings) ·
  • 50 Want to read
  • 1 Currently reading
  • 15 Have read

The definitive cult, post-modern novel – a shocking blend of violence, transgression and eroticism. When our narrator smashes his car into another and watches a man die in front of him, his sense of sexual possibilities in the world around him becomes detached. As he begins an affair with the dead man's wife, he finds himself drawn with increasing intensity to the mangled impacts of car crashes. Then he encounters Robert Vaughan, a former TV scientist turned nightmare angel of the expressway, who has gathered around him a collection of alienated crash victims and experiments with a series of erotic 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. First published in 1973 'Crash' remains one of the most shocking novels of the second half of the twentieth century and was made into an equally controversial film by David Cronenburg.

Publish Date
Publisher
Vintage Books
Language
English
Pages
223

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Cover of: Crash
Crash
2001, Picador
in English - 1st Picador USA ed.
Cover of: Crash
Crash
1985, Vintage Books
in English - 1st Vintage Books ed.

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Edition Notes

Originally published: New York : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1973.

Published in
New York
Genre
Fiction.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823/.914
Library of Congress
PR6052.A46 C7 1985

The Physical Object

Pagination
223 p. ;
Number of pages
223

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL2549951M
Internet Archive
crashball00ball
ISBN 10
0394741099
LCCN
85040128
Library Thing
7140
Goodreads
864399

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