Crash

"Now that Vaughan is dead, we shall set out with the others who have gathered around him, like a crowd drawn to a crippled invalid whose contorted postures reveal the secret formulas of his mind and life."

By destroying his car in an accident and witnessing the death of the driver of the other vehicle before his eyes, James Ballard, the narrator of this book, discovers a fascination with the confusion and chaos of metal and dented surfaces resulting from the collision between cars.

It is the vision of his friend and visionary Robert Vaughan, a man...