High Rise

Ballard, J. G.

ISBN 10: 0881844004 / ISBN 13: 9780881844009

Published by Carroll & Graf Pub (edition ), 1988

About this Item

The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

Seller Inventory # 0881844004-7-1

Bibliographic Details

• Title: High Rise
• Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub (edition )
• Publication Date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0881844004
• ISBN 13: 9780881844009
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Fair

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Synopsis

The wealthy inhabitants of a luxurious, well-designed apartment complex become engaged in hostilities that begin in the dropping of debris onto lower balconies and climax in drunken, marauding attacks by rival floor tribes

About the Author

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.