High-Rise: A Novel (Movie Tie-in Editions)

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Liveright Publishing, Apr 26, 2016 - Fiction - 208 pages

The classic novel of luxury and depravity, now a major motion picture.

From the author of the celebrated dystopian classics Kingdom Come, The Drowned World, and The Drought, High Rise is a prescient story of class warfare. The film adaptation by acclaimed director Ben Wheatley (Sightseers, Kill List) features Academy AwardŽ winner Jeremy Irons; BAFTA Award nominees Tom Hiddleston and Sienna Miller; Luke Evans and Golden Globe AwardŽ winner Elisabeth Moss.

When explosive loyalties form inside a luxurious apartment block isolated from the rest of society, modern elevators become fierce battlegrounds and cocktail parties degenerate into marauding attacks on “enemy” floors. In this chilling tale, humanity slips into violent reverse as once-peaceful residents, driven by primal urges, re-create a world ruled by the laws of the jungle.

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Critical Mass
Party Time
Death of a Resident
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5The Vertical City
Danger in the Streets of the
Preparations for Departure
The Predatory Birds
Punitive Expeditions
Towards the Summit
Body Markings
Final Triumph
The Evenings Entertainment
A Happy Arrangement
The Lakeside Pavilion
The Blood Garden

Into the Drop Zone
The Drained Lake
Night Games
Copyright

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About the author (2016)

J.G. Ballard was born in Shanghai in 1930 and lived in England from 1946 until his death in London in 2009. He is the author of nineteen novels, including Empire of the Sun, The Drought, and Crash, with many of them made into major films.

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