Concrete Island pays twisted homage to Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe.

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.

Reissued with a New Introduction from Neil Gaiman.

Author: J.G. Ballard
Introduction: Neil Gaiman
Publisher: Picador
Page Count: 176pp
Size: 5.75 x 8
Notes: trade paperback
Date of Publication: June 12, 2018
ISBN: 978-1250171528