![]() ![]() It first gets hold of his car wrecking it up so that his one escape means gets destroyed and later grasps him, claws at him, and forbids him to leave it until he has an upper hand on the island and thaws all its moves with the help of his intelligence and instinct. The island is compared to a living thing that changes its forms like a chameleon. The concrete island virtually traps the protagonist, the wealthy architect Maitland and stops every means of escape. This manmade island is a triangular section of land and is as isolated as a geographical island. ![]() As the name implies, the book is about a Concrete island that is not a natural island but a manmade one formed by the intersection of three speeding motorways. This novel is followed by “High-Rise” and preceded by “Crash”. ![]() Concrete Island forms the second book in JG Ballard’s thematic trilogy of novels based on the urban disaster in England. J G Ballard is a writing genius who creates situations of high definition modern life crisis and puts some humans to deal with them in the best possible manner. ![]()
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