This, apart from showing what a rake he is, is important to the plot. He is, rather inevitably, having an affair with a younger woman at work, Helen Fairfax, and has spent the past few nights with her. He is married and lives with his wife Catherine and eight-year-old son David somewhere near Richmond. It’s a short novel and a lot more restrained than either of its predecessors, but still explores a mind-bending situation and eventually takes us into familiar Ballard psychotic territory.ģ5-year-old Robert Maitland is a partner in a successful architectural practice in Marylebone. Concrete Island continues the obsession with cars and car crashes which was evident in the experimental texts which made up The Atrocity Exhibition and which then exploded into the fetish pornography of Crash.
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