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High-Rise (Paperback)

by J.G. Ballard (Author)
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  • Paperback: 176 pages
  • Publisher: Flamingo; New edition edition (3 Jan 1998)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0586044566
  • ISBN-13: 978-0586044568
  • Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 12.8 x 1.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 6,339 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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'Ballard's finest novel! a triumph.' The Times 'Another eerie glimpse into the future. A fast-moving, spine-tingling fable of the concrete jungle.' Daily Express 'A gripping read, particularly if you like your thrills chilly, bloody and with claims to social relevance.' Time Out 'Harsh and ingenious! High-Rise is an intense and vivid bestiary, which lingers unsettlingly in the mind.' Martin Amis, New Statesman


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From the author of the Sunday Times bestseller Cocaine Nights comes an acclaimed backlist title -- the unnerving tale of life in a modern tower block running out of control -- now reissued in new cover style. Within the concealing walls of an elegant forty-storey tower block, the affluent tenants are hell-bent on an orgy of destruction. Cocktail parties degenerate into marauding attacks on 'enemy' floors and the once-luxurious amenities become an arena for technological mayhem...In this classic visionary tale, human society slips into violent reverse as the inhabitants of the high-rise, driven by primal urges, recreate a world ruled by the laws of the jungle.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A surreal and chilling study of social degeneration, 12 Jul 2000
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I have just finished reading High Rise, JG Ballard's surreal and chilling study of social degeneration within the walls of a 40 storey apartment block populated by an ascendant order of professional classes. The novel makes for compulsive reading as Ballard propels his complicit characters through an apocalyptic gallop towards their primordial origins. The author fills the margins of his fiction with the accumalitive waste of modern existence, and its encroachment is so powerful that the reader can almost smell the rotting garbage and faecal climate of this surrealist tower block. The intoxicating violence and the strange allure of a human community radically re-ordering itself somewhere outside of the technological frontier make this a must for committed Ballard fans and new readers alike.
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5.0 out of 5 stars The Evening's Entertainment, 30 Jun 2004
This review is from: High Rise (1970s A) (Paperback)
This is really prime Ballard. He has produced great works like The Atrocity Exhibition and Crash but as usual it is his 'urban-disasters' that prove to be the more involving reads and High-rise is my personal favourite.

The formula isnt any different to that of 'The Drowned Wolrd' or, more recently, 'Millennium People' but it still works effective in working a range of genres like social and political with good old excitement (with a dab of the black ballard humour). High Rise is my favourite because it is very accessible but doesnt lose out because of it. The atmosphere built is think and intense, reminiscient of 'Lord of the Flies' or the crawling paranoia of 'Apocalypse Now'. Characters are typically undeveloped but what they get up to and the clarity of their surroundings more than makes up for it.

Keep in mind that youve gotta let your imagination fly with this one more than others. Its top stuff.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Paradise Towers., 14 Oct 2002
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The theme of High-Rise should be familiar to anyone who has read the author before, as Ballard once again plays with the ideas of how a physical setting can affect a characters internal psychological landscape. Unlike Ballard's earlier novels however, which featured one characters immersion and eventual acceptance of his surroundings, here the narrative is equally divided between three main protagonists representing the tenants of the lower, middle, and upper floors of a high-rise block. As the situation inside the high-rise becomes more dislocated from reality, so the building becomes more ingrained in the tenants psychology. As one character climbs the high-rise, he reverts to a childlike mentality - even losing the power of speech - mirroring the children's play area that awaits him at the summit.

The idea of violence as a form of recreation amongst a cloistered society is perhaps better explored in Ballard's later novel Super-Cannes, but this novel is still bursting with startling ideas and imagery, and the eventual emergence of the ultimate victors in this class war makes for an unexpected and satisfying conclusion. Highly recommended.

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5.0 out of 5 stars J.G. Ballard - High-Rise
Brilliant. I've not read Ballard before, but I'll be doing so again. This is a sharp, cutting little novel concerning the descent of the behaviour of the residents of a high-rise... Read more
Published 18 months ago by RachelWalker

4.0 out of 5 stars Very good and chilling piece of writing
This was my first Ballard novel, but certainly won't be my last. I do like dystopian fiction and this depicts horrifically and initially quite realistically the decay of life in a... Read more
Published 23 months ago by John Hopper

5.0 out of 5 stars One of Ballard's best novels
High Rise (1995) here gets another reissue, just three years after the perfectly fine Flamingo edition- the cover of this one doesn;t appeal very much! Read more
Published on 4 Aug 2003 by Jason Parkes

4.0 out of 5 stars Battery Living
Much of Ballard's work since the 1970's seems to employ as its central tenet the notion that lifestyle can be packaged and bought, pre-conceived and pre-fabricated. Read more
Published on 10 Feb 2003 by jdc184

5.0 out of 5 stars Top TEN of all Time
This is probably ballards most haunting intense peice of work and I adore it beyond any of his other novels... Read more
Published on 31 Oct 2001 by Paul S. Whiston

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