High Rise (Film Tie-In)

Resumen del libro

Now a major film: J. G. Ballard's compelling and unnerving tale of what happens when life in a luxury apartment building descends into chaos.
Later, as he sat on his balcony eating the dog, Dr Robert Laing reflected on the unusual events that had taken place within this huge apartment building during the previous three months.'

Within the walls of an elegant forty-storey high-rise, 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 mayhem.

In this visionary novel, the veneer of civilised society is stripped away as the inhabitants of the high-rise, driven by primal urges, create a dystopian world ruled by intimidation and violence. And no one wants it to stop

Biografía del autor

J. G. Ballard nació en Shangai en 1930, de padres ingleses. En 1961 publicó su primera novela, El mundo sumergido. Esta considerado como uno de los autores más destacados de la denominada New Wave en la ciencia ficción. En 1984 ganó el Guardian Fiction Prize y el James Tait Black Memorial Prize por su novela El imperio del Sol, que fue llevada a la pantalla por Steven Spielberg en 1987. Asimismo, su controvertida novela Crash fue adaptada al cine por David Cronenberg.