num_pages: 224
description: The cult status of Crash has intensified since its original publication in 1973, making it a classic of underground literature. In this hallucinatory novel, the car provides the hellish tableau in which Vaughan, a ‘TV scientist’, experiments with erotic atrocities among crash victims, each more sinister than the last.
language: English
title: Crash
titlecomplete: Crash
characters: James Ballard, Dr. Robert Vaughan
genres: 20th Century, Literature, Science Fiction, Classics, Literary Fiction, Novels, Horror, Fiction, Contemporary, British Literature
ratings_count: 24914
publisher: Vintage Books