High-Rise (novel)

For the film adaptation, see High-Rise (film).
High-Rise
First edition (hardcover) of J.G. Ballard's novel High Rise, showing a fractured building with floors missing, against a backdrop of blue sky and clouds, with the author and title at the top.
Cover of the first edition
AuthorJ. G. Ballard
LanguageEnglish
GenreDystopian, thriller
PublisherJonathan Cape
Publication date
1975
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint (hardback and paperback)
Pages204
ISBN0-224-01168-5
OCLC1993557
823/.9/14
LC ClassPZ4.B1893 Hi PR6052.A46
Preceded byConcrete Island (1974) 
Followed byThe Unlimited Dream Company (1979) 

High-Rise is a 1975 novel by British writer J. G. Ballard.[1] The story describes the disintegration of a luxury high-rise building as its affluent residents gradually descend into violent chaos. As with Ballard's previous novels Crash (1973) and Concrete Island (1974), High-Rise inquires into the ways in which modern social and technological landscapes could alter the human psyche in provocative and hitherto unexplored ways. It was adapted into a film of the same name, in 2015, by director Ben Wheatley.

  1. ^ J. G. Ballard; James Goddard (1976). J. G. Ballard, the First Twenty Years. Bran's Head Books Limited. p. 89. ISBN 9780905220031.