In the canon
Crash
- Form
- Form Novel
- Year
- Year 1973
- Pages
- Pages 230
On a wet flyover near Heathrow, chrome and torn safety glass arrange themselves around a body, and the narrator finds, to his horror and then his fascination, that the wound excites him. This is a novel about people aroused by car crashes: about Vaughan, the scarred visionary who photographs collisions and dreams of dying in a head-on impact with Elizabeth Taylor, and the circle he draws into his fever, tracing the shapes a dashboard stamps into flesh.
Vaughan died yesterday in his last car-crash. During our friendship he had rehearsed his death in many crashes, but this was his only true accident.
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