High-Rise by J.G. Ballard

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Book name:	High-Rise (2024)
Category:	Fiction
Author:	J.G. Ballard
Pages:	208 pages
ISBN13:	0871404028
ISBN:	0871404028
Language:	English
Publication data:	April 16, 2012, 7 a.m.

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. 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.

About the author

J.G. Ballard

6 books

James Graham "J. G." Ballard (15 November 1930 – 19 April 2009) was an English novelist, short story writer, and essayist. Ballard came to be associated with the New Wave of science fiction early in his career with apocalyptic (or post-apocalyptic) novels such as The Drowned World (1962), The Burning World (1964), and The Crystal World (1966). In the late 1960s and early 1970s Ballard focused on an eclectic variety of short stories (or "condensed novels") such as The Atrocity Exhibition (1970),… Read more