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Dr. Robert Laing lives in a "high rise" housing complex that offers its residents state-of-the-art technology that caters to domestic bliss. But--paradoxically--this array of high-tech innovation is responsible for a new kind of violence. "Reminiscent of Lord of the Flies".--The New York Times.
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J. G. Ballard was born in 1930 in Shanghai. After internment in a civilian prison camp, his family returned to England in 1946. His 1984 bestseller ‘Empire of the Sun’ won the Guardian Fiction Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. His controversial novel ‘Crash’ was made into a film by David Cronenberg. His autobiography ‘Miracles of Life’ was published in 2008, and a collection of interviews with the author, ‘Extreme Metaphors’, was published in 2012. J. G. Ballard passed away in 2009.
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British actor Tom Hiddleston, well-known for portraying the supervillain Loki (The Avengers, Thor: The Dark World) and the writer F. Scott Fitzgerald (Midnight in Paris), brings his acting versatility and smooth voice to this visionary tale by acclaimed author J.G. Ballard (Empire of the Sun). 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. 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.
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- PublisherJonathan Cape Ltd
- Publication date1975
- ISBN 10 0224011685
- ISBN 13 9780224011686
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages204
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High Rise
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Jonathan Cape, London, 1975
ISBN 10: 0224011685
ISBN 13: 9780224011686
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First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 204 pages. A chilling work that is considered one of the 100 Best Science Fiction novels by Pringle. Adapted into the 2015 movie of the same name with Tom Hiddleston, Jeremy Irons, Siena Miller, and Elizabeth Moss. A clean and tight near fine copy with some very minor wear and in a near fine dust jacket with some minor wear as well. Still, a very nice copy. Seller Inventory # 203763
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High-Rise
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Jonathan Cape,, London, 1975
ISBN 10: 0224011685
ISBN 13: 9780224011686
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Hardcover with Dust Jacket. First Edition. VG++ towards near fine, black top edge, price clipped dj. DJ is VG++ in an acetate, Seller Inventory # 45626
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HIGH-RISE
Published by
Jonathan Cape, London, 1975
ISBN 10: 0224011685
ISBN 13: 9780224011686
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Octavo, boards. First edition. "The middle-class residents of a gigantic apartment block discover that their 'affectless' surroundings encourage a new kind of barbarism. Ironic, stylish, perverse, hard-hitting. Like the author's CRASH, it is only marginally SF, but in some ways it seems to prefigure the selfish yuppiedom of the mid-80s and the building of the Canary Wharf tower in London's former docklands." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition, p. 173. "This book has been called an adult version of Golding's LORD OF THE FLIES." - Barron (ed), Horror Literature 4-18. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-68. King list, p. 389. Winter list, p. 268. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 364. A fine copy in fine dust jacket with printed price clipped and Cape's £6.95 price sticker affixed to the front flap. (#173352). Seller Inventory # 173352
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