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High-Rise
- 207 pages · about 3 hours
- First published 1975
- 30 editions
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1 About this book
High-Rise is a 1975 novel by British writer J. G. Ballard. The story describes the disintegration of a luxury high-rise building as its affluent residents gradually descend into violent chaos.
As with Ballard's previous novels Crash (1973) and Concrete Island (1974), High-Rise inquires into the ways in which modern social and technological landscapes could alter the human psyche in provocative and hitherto unexplored ways. It was adapted into a film of the same name, in 2015, by director Ben Wheatley.
- Dystopian fiction
- Skyscrapers
- Apartment dwellers
2 About J. G. Ballard
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