In this hallucinatory novel, an automobile provides the hellish tableau in which Vaughan, a "TV scientist" turned "nightmare angel of the highways," experiments with erotic atrocities among auto crash victims, each more sinister than the last. James Ballard, his friend and fellow obsessive, tells the story of this twisted visionary as he careens rapidly toward his own demise in...(展开全部)

In this hallucinatory novel, an automobile provides the hellish tableau in which Vaughan, a "TV scientist" turned "nightmare angel of the highways," experiments with erotic atrocities among auto crash victims, each more sinister than the last. James Ballard, his friend and fellow obsessive, tells the story of this twisted visionary as he careens rapidly toward his own demise in...(展开全部)

科里·贝尔 在牛津大学攻读英国文学，后彻底放弃文学作了画家。现在他两不耽误，双双风光，写画家的事，为作家作画，他是布卢姆斯伯里文化圈中的一员，所以这是真正的“马口料”。请多加注意，读者——比这更权威的材料再难得到。

You just boarded a flight to New York. There are one hundred and forty-three other passengers onboard. What you don’t know is that thirty minutes before the flight your pilot’s family was kidnapped. For his family to live, everyone on your plane must die. The only way the family will survive is if the pilot follows his orders and crashes the plane. Enjoy the flight.

With alarming frequency, modern economies go through macro-financial crashes that arise from the financial sector and spread to the broader economy, inflicting deep and prolonged recessions. A Crash Course on Crises brings together the latest cutting-edge economic research to identify the seeds of these crashes, reveal their triggers and consequences, and explain what policymak...(展开全部)

With alarming frequency, modern economies go through macro-financial crashes that arise from the financial sector and spread to the broader economy, inflicting deep and prolonged recessions. A Crash Course on Crises brings together the latest cutting-edge economic research to identify the seeds of these crashes, reveal their triggers and consequences, and explain what policymak...(展开全部)

詹姆斯·巴拉德（1930－2009），英国作家，从小在上海的租借地长大，“二战”期间曾被关进日军的战俘集中营，对战争的恐怖回忆，大大影响了他日后的创作，使他被奉为“赛博朋克”（Cyberpunk）文学导师。他的名著《太阳帝国》（Empire of the Sun）曾入围1984年布克奖的决选。而《撞车》则是他的颠峰之作。此书初成之际，曾受多家出版社的拒绝，甚者竟建议他去寻求心理医生的治疗。然而，三十年后，这部融汇性、科技、精神分析、恋物的作品最终变成了一部经典。美国文坛的灵魂人物苏珊•桑塔格曾盛赞巴拉德是“当代小说中最具智慧的声音”。

The definitive cult, post-modern novel -- a shocking blend of violence, transgression and eroticism. When our narrator smashes his car into another and watches a man die in front of him, his sense of sexual possibilities in the world around him becomes detached. As he begins an affair with the dead man's wife, he finds himself drawn with increasing intensity to the mangled imp...(展开全部)