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High-Rise

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Coming in March 2016 from acclaimed director Ben Wheatley, a major motion picture adaptation of J.

G. Ballard’s compelling and unnerving tale of what happens when life in a luxury apartment building descends into chaos, starring Tom Hiddleston, Jeremy Irons, Sienna Miller, Luke Evans and Elisabeth Moss. ‘Later, as he sat on his balcony eating the dog, Dr Robert Laing reflected on the unusual events that had taken place within this huge apartment building during the previous three months.’ Within the walls of a high-tech forty-storey high-rise, the residents are hell-bent on an orgy of sex and destruction, answering to primal urges that their utopian surroundings can’t satisfy.

The high-rise is a would-be paradise turned dystopia, ruled by intimidation and violence, and, as the residents organize themselves for war, floor against floor, no one wants it to stop …

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Fourth Estate Ltd
0008134898 / 9780008134891
Paperback / softback
823.914
10/03/2016
United Kingdom
English
General
248 pages
20 cm
Reprint. Film tie-in. Originally published: London: Jonathan Cape, 1975.