![]() ![]() Ballard is very good at establishing an ambience of life among people with an almost Victorian sense of exposition-each character has their daily manners and conversations, amid which small interruptions begin to bleed in.įirst, an unknown man gets into an altercation at the pool with a group of children. When the book begins, the sound of cocktail parties and jubilation fills the building’s halls men and women conduct their lives under the throes of daily work and casual sex people come and go from the apartment into the larger world for work and return at night alongside their neighbors. The book follows several different protagonists through the landscape of the building during a time in which something is wrong and getting worse by the minute, though no one seems to know precisely what. High Rise, as the title portends, concerns the lives of people living in a 40-floor high-rise apartment building and sharing common areas such as a gym, grocery store, liquor store, pool, etc. ![]()
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