Crash (paperback)

When Ballard, our narrator, smashes his car into another and watches aman die in front of him, his sense of sexual possibilities in the world around him becomes radicalized. As he begins an affair with the dead man's wife, he finds himself drawn with increasing intensity to the mangled wreckage of car crashes. This is the definitive cult, postmodern novel - a schocking blend of violence, transgression and eroticism.