High-Rise: A Novel
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| Rating | : | 4.20 (500 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0871404028 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 208 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-07-26 |
| Language | : | English |
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'Ballard's finest novel a triumph' The Times 'ingenious 'High-Rise' is an intense and vivid bestiary, which lingers unsettlingly in the mind' Martin Amis 'Chilling Ballard is a prophetic writer' Sunday Times 'The writing is cool, the observation exact, the idea bold and well-developed; everything seems to demand attention and analysis' Financial Times 'The terrifying thing about Ballard is his logic; is this science fiction or history written ahead of its time?' Len Deighton
"Lord of the Flies in a high rise apartment building. With one glaring problem." according to Matt. The central idea here is interesting. One thousand well-to-do residents of a modern luxury high rise turn to savages within the confines of their own building. As the mechanics of the building break down, so do the societal rules. It starts with graffiti and broken elevators and devolves into rape, murder, cannibalism and more. (The book is extremely disturbing.)My one VERY MAJOR problem w. "Horror story within a high rise building - a chilling social commentary on the effects of technology on the human psyche" according to Marie. High Rise is a horrific novel about a building that begins to have a strange hold over its residents. The high rise is a virtual vertical city, with the higher levels representing higher social class status. The building has it’s own school, restaurants, pools, grocery store. The only reason for its’ residents to leave is to go to work. The residents begin to throw louder and w. Amazon Customer said Well Now I don't have to go see the movie.. So I decided to purchase this book because I saw Tom Hiddleston was in the movie coming out, if he was in it this book had to be good right? Ermm. It was fascinating, I won't lie there. J.G. Ballard showed the breakdown of a society in an apartment building and reading it, it felt like it could in fact happen. It seemed to destroy the reader's faith in humanity, showing how quickly the peo
In this visionary tale, human society slips into violent reverse as once-peaceful residents, driven by primal urges, re-create a world ruled by the laws of the jungle.. "Harsh and ingenious! High Rise is an intense and vivid bestiary, which lingers unsettlingly in the mind." Martin Amis, New Statesman When a class war erupts inside a luxurious apartment block, modern elevators become violent battlegrounds and cocktail parties degenerate into marauding attacks on “enemy” floors
. J.G. Ballard was born in Shanghai in 1930 and lived in England from 1946 until his death in London in 2009. He is the author of nineteen novels, including Empire of the Sun, The Drought, and Crash, with many of them made into major films