High Rise (Flamingo Modern Classic)
by J.G. Ballard
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Author: J.G. BallardEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown)
Published: 1998-01-03
ISBN: 0586044566
Number of pages: 176
Publisher: Firebird Distributing
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Book Review: A surreal and chilling study of social degeneration
Summary: 5 Stars
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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