High-Rise

J. G. Ballard First published 1975

About this book

*High-Rise* is a 1975 novel by British writer J. G. Ballard. The story describes the disintegration of a luxury high-rise building as its affluent residents gradually descend into violent chaos. As with Ballard's previous novels *Crash* (1973) and *Concrete Island* (1974), High-Rise inquires into the ways in which modern social and technological landscapes could alter the human psyche in provocative and hitherto unexplored ways. It was adapted into a film of the same name, in 2015, by director Ben Wheatley.

Subjects

  • apartment dwellers
  • dystopias
  • fiction
  • fiction, general
  • fiction in english
  • high-rise apartment buildings
  • skyscrapers
  • social aspects