<p><b>The Definitive Cult, Postmodern Novel—a Shocking Blend of Violence, Transgression, and Eroticism<br><br>Reissued with a New Introduction from Zadie Smith<br></b><br>When J. G. Ballard, our narrator, smashes his car into another and 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 and experiments with a series of autoerotic 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.<br><br>First published in 1973, <i>Crash</i> remains one of the most shocking novels of the twentieth century and was made into an equally controversial film by David Cronenberg.</p>