High-Rise

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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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J. G. Ballard

James Graham Ballard (1930–2009) was a British novelist and short story writer who was a prominent part of the New Wave in science fiction in the mid- to late-1960s and whose work frequently focused on dystopian themes. J. G. Ballard's best known books are the controversial novel Crash, an exploration of sexual…

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