Does the angle between two walls have a happy ending?
BALLARD, J.G. High Rise. London: Jonathan Cape. 1975.
8vo. Original blue cloth lettered in gilt to spine, top edge blue, in unclipped dustwrapper; pp. 204; fading to edges of upper and lower margins of boards with a slight lean, otherwise a near-fine copy.
First edition.
Inside the walls of an elegant forty-storey tower block, the tenants are engaged in an orgy of destruction. Cocktail parties degenerate into attacks on ‘enemy’ floors and the once-luxurious amenities become the site of riots and technological mayhem. A visionary tale of urban disillusionment depicting a dystopian world ruled by the laws of the jungle.
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