The definitive cult post-modern novel – a shocking blend of violence transgression & eroticism – reissued with a new introduction from Zadie Smith When Ballard our narrator smashes his car into another & watches a man die in front of him he finds himself drawn with increasing intensity to the mangled impacts of car crashes Robert Vaughan a former TV scientist turned nightmare angel of the expressway has gathered around him a collection of alienated crash victims & experiments with a series of auto-erotic atrocities each more sinister than the last But Vaughan craves the ultimate crash – a head-on collision of blood semen engine coolant & iconic celebrity First published in 1973 ‘ Crash’ remains one of the most shocking novels of the twentieth century & was made into an equally controversial film by David Cronenberg This edition is part of a new commemorative series of Ballard’s works featuring introductions from a number of his admirers (including Robert Macfarlane Martin Amis James Lever & Ali Smith) & br&-new cover designs from the artist Stanley Donwood