HIGH-RISE

by Ballard

$750 · Offered by L. W. Currey

First edition

London: Jonathan Cape, 1975 . Octavo, boards. First edition. The middle-class residents of a gigantic apartment block discover that their 'affectless' surroundings encourage a new kind of barbarism. Ironic, stylish, perverse, hard-hitting. Like the author's CRASH, it is only marginally SF, but in some ways it seems to prefigure the selfish yuppiedom of the mid-80s and the building of the Canary Wharf tower in London's

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