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Isserley picks up hitchhikers with big muscles. She has a remarkable face and wears the thickest corrective lenses anyone has ever seen. Her hitchhikers are a mixed bunch, but Isserley is only interested in whether they have families.

Julius lives in a cabin in the hunting heartland of the Maine woods, with only his books and his dog for company. That is until the morning he finds that his dog has been shot dead – and not by accident.

The Wasp Factory comes from Frank’s invention of a house of mirrors, except instead of it being a fun room, it’s a torture device.

Take this as a warning; Crash is not for the faint-hearted or the literary reader. It falls far down the cracks in the gaping abyss between.

Rushdie, at the time, was very much the ‘poster boy’ of free expression in a world of heavy censorship.

In this review, I’ll look at Iris’ first novel and explain the meandering plot and the quirky characters that help give meaning to the fictional classic.