Does the angle between two walls have a happy ending?
BALLARD, J.G. High Rise. London, Jonathan Cape. 1975.
8vo. Original blue boards lettered in gilt to spine, top edge blue, with neatly price-clipped, pictorial dust wrapper featuring photograph of the author to rear, pp. [xiii], 204, very minimal fading to lower margins of boards with slight marking to rear wrapper, otherwise a bright, near-fine copy.
First edition.
“Later, as he sat on the 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 …"
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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