High-Rise
Introduction by Ned Beauman
(Sprache: Englisch)
From the author of 'Crash' and 'Cocaine Nights' comes an unnerving tale of life in a modern tower block running out of control.
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From the author of 'Crash' and 'Cocaine Nights' comes an unnerving tale of life in a modern tower block running out of control.
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From the author of 'Crash' and 'Cocaine Nights' comes an unnerving tale of life in a modern tower block running out of control. 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 riots and technological mayhem.
In this visionary tale of urban disillusionment society slips into a violent reverse as the isolated inhabitants of the high-rise, driven by primal urges, create a dystopian world ruled by the laws of the jungle.
This edition is part of a new commemorative series of Ballard's works, featuring introductions from a number of his admirers (including Iain Sinclair, Ali Smith, Neil Gaiman and Martin Amis) and brand-new cover designs.
Autoren-Porträt von J. G. Ballard
J. G. Ballard was born in 1930 in Shanghai, where his father was a businessman. After internment in a civilian prison camp, he and his family returned to England in 1946. He published his first novel, The Drowned World, in 1961. His 1984 bestseller Empire of the Sun won the Guardian Fiction Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. His memoir Miracles of Life was published in 2008. J. G. Ballard died in 2009.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: J. G. Ballard
- 1993, XIV, 253 Seiten, Maße: 12,9 x 19,8 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: HarperCollins UK
- ISBN-10: 0586044566
- ISBN-13: 9780586044568
- Erscheinungsdatum: 21.09.2010
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
'Ballard's finest novel ... a triumph' The Times 'ingenious ... 'High-Rise' is an intense and vivid bestiary, which lingers unsettlingly in the mind' Martin Amis
'Chilling ... Ballard is a prophetic writer' Sunday Times
'The writing is cool, the observation exact, the idea bold and well-developed; everything seems to demand attention and analysis' Financial Times
'The terrifying thing about Ballard is his logic; is this science fiction or history written ahead of its time?' Len Deighton
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