Ballard, High-RiseĪs the plot progresses, the building starts to take a grip on its residents. Looking up at the endless tiers of balconies, he felt uneasily like a visitor to a malevolent zoo where terraces of vertically mounted cages contained creatures of random and ferocious cruelty. Moving into an apartment on the 25 th floor, thanks to a recommendation from his sister Alice who lives on the lower realms. Taking his position in the top floor’s penthouse apartment, this sets the tone for the class-structured layering of tenants below.Īmong them is Robert Laing, a recently divorced doctor and medicinal-school lecturer. A recent study has shown this to be accurate, just not to the extremes of this book.įollowing the construction of a new state-of-the-art housing development, the architect Anthony Royal is the first to move in. This proves how far the plot of this book has gone to reach the crest of the English lexicon.įirst released in 1975, the premise centres on the idea that a building can impact its occupants. Ballard in a 2013 Guardian article that describes a new London housing development as going a bit High-Rise. In Ned Beauman’s sensational introduction, he quotes from J.G.
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