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by J.G. Ballard (Author)
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  • Paperback: 176 pages
  • Publisher: Flamingo; New Ed 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: 9,026 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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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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4.0 out of 5 stars Battery Living, 10 Feb 2003
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. As an unavoidable fact of modern life the big city also features heavily as a theme, imposing the considerations of limited space upon modern man's reified lifestyle choices.
High-Rise is a good attempt to capture the blandness caused by the removal of risk and danger from people's lives, and the main narrative thrust is an imagination of the violence this may reawaken in people. The book is inferior to Cocaine Nights, and maybe Crash, in terms of atmospherics; its real strength lies in the way in which it gradually escalates in violence and purpose. The book is a dizzying, steadily heightening trip into the violent recesses of the human mind and, as always, Ballard's explication of events runs in smooth concurrence with them. The result, as usual, is both logical, mad and slightly claustrophobic. Intense, and recommended, reading.
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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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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
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 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 14 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 19 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

5.0 out of 5 stars Paradise Towers.
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... Read more
Published on 14 Oct 2002 by dogbarkssome

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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