High-Rise

ISBN-13: 9780586044568 / Angielski / Miękka / 1985 / 272 str.

J. G. Ballard

Opis

J.G. Ballard's dystopian novel depicts a future in which the occupants of a luxury 40-storey tower block revert to primitive behaviour and embark on an orgy of destruction, obeying the laws of the jungle, rather than civilised society.

Recenzje

'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

O autorze

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.