MixedThis is a book that is not for everybody. At times it was not for me. I just don't think that there's another book that does what Crash does as well as Crash does it.
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Crash (1973)
Others: Leaning positive 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.
- ISBN:
- 9780312420338
- Length:
- 223 pages
Genres: science fiction, horror, mystery, thriller, classics
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Loved itCrash, in my opinion, is one of the greatest novels ever written and completely Freudian.
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Loved itit is very jarring and very unusual but it's also very beautiful the way it's written