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A chilling book about our modern world, from the author of Empire of the Sunshine and Crash. An architect is driving home from his London office buildings when a blow-out delivers his speeding Jaguar hurtling out of control. Smashing through the temporary hurdle he locates himself, dazed and disorientated, over a traffic island below three converging motorways. However when he attempts to climb the embankment or flag-down a transferring car for help it shows impossible - and he locates himself marooned on the concrete island. In this particular twisted version of Robinson Crusoe, our hero must learn to survive - using only what he can find in his crashed car. Cement Island has an unnerving study of our own modern lives and world. Along with his alienating, 'Ballardian' view of normal incidents, this is a unique novel from one of our own finest writers. J. G. Ballard was born in 1930 in Shanghai, where his father was a entrepreneur. After internment in a civilian jail camp, he and his family went back to Great britain in 1946. He published his first book, The Drowned World, in 1961. His 1984 best retailer Empire of the Sunshine gained the Guardian Fiction Award and the Wayne Tait Dark colored Memorial Award, and was shortlisted for the Booker Award. It had been later filmed by Steven Spielberg. His memoir Wonders of Life was published in 2008. J.G. Ballard perished in 2009 2009.
