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" turned "nightmare angel of the highways", experiments with erotic atrocities among crash victims, each more sinister than the last: ultimately, he craves a union of blood, semen and engine coolant in a head-on collision with Elizabeth Taylor.
language: English
title: Crash
titlecomplete: Crash
characters: Dr. Robert Vaughan, James Ballard
genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, British Literature, Horror, Literature, Classics, Novels, Contemporary, 20th Century, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 24923
publisher: Vintage (UK)