![]() ![]() Later, as he sat on his balcony eating the dog, Dr. Laing and Royal begin their own expeditions and carve out niches for their own desires.įrom the first line, the reader senses something is amiss: As the building degrades, sharp lines of blacked-out floors divide the classes and Wilder leads raids to the upper floors. ![]() Robert Laing, a 25th floor occupant and Anthony Royal, the architect on the top (40th) floor. The narrative rotates to follow three main characters: Richard Wilder, an occupant of the 2nd floor and member of the high-rise’s “lower” class Dr. I’m partial to weird books that are well-written and Ballard spins a tight tale about a high-rise populated with affluent professionals whose class struggle grows increasingly animalistic. It’s a trippy, bizarre, downhill slide of a book with spurts of absurdist humor. I have in-progress reviews, but I’m coming off a book high and I’d rather blog about J.G. ![]()
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