On a day in April just after three oclock in the afternoon Robert Maitlandscar crashes over the concrete parapet of a highspeed highway onto the islandbelow whe... » 

On a day in April just after three oclock in the afternoon Robert Maitlandscar crashes over the concrete parapet of a highspeed highway onto the islandbelow where he is injured and finally trapped. What begins as an almostludicrous predicament soon turns into horror as Maitland8212a wickedlymodern Robinson Crusoe8212realizes that despite evidence of otherinhabitants this doomed terrain has become a mirror of his own mind. Seekingthe dark outer rim of the everyday Ballard weaves private catastrophe into anintensely specular allegory. «