Read more 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. In High-Rise the fitfully brilliant Briton Ben Wheatley, with writing partner Amy Jump, seizes what seems a perfect-fitting text - JG Ballards dystopian novel High-Rise - and makes an. From the author of Crash and Cocaine Nights comes an unnerving tale of life in a modern tower block running out of. ‘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.’. Ballard (Author) Format: Kindle Edition 2,235 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 9.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 18.99 18 New from 13.99 Paperback 12.99 39 Used from 5.60 35 New from 10. Ballard, who was no admirer of England’s green and pleasant land and was quick to embrace the cool promise of modernity after the war, nevertheless found worrying portents in the high-rise. 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. Within the concealing walls of an elegant forty-storey tower block, the affluent tenants are hell-bent on an orgy of destruction. The real-life British buildings behind J.G.
He is the author of nineteen novels, including Empire of the Sun, The Drought, and Crash, with many of them made into major films.
Coming in March 2016 from acclaimed director Ben Wheatley, a major motion picture adaptation of J. Ballard was born in Shanghai in 1930 and lived in England from 1946 until his death in London in 2009. Ballard's compelling and unnerving tale of what happens when life in a luxury apartment building descends into chaos.
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