HIGH-RISE

J,G. BALLARD

「待會見，正當他坐在陽台大啖著那隻德國牧羊犬的時候，羅伯．萊恩醫師回想著過去三個月來，發生在這棟摩天大樓一連串不可思議的事情。」

身處在這座四十樓高的高科技摩天大樓，裡頭的居民恣意縱情於聲色犬馬與自我毀滅當中，試圖滿足自己最原始的衝動，那些他們所在的完美世界仍無法滿足的衝動。這座看似天堂的摩天大樓，實為一切夢想的幻滅，一座由威脅恐嚇與暴力所統治的國度，然而當居民成群結隊挺身而戰，樓層對樓層相互攻訐，卻絲毫無人想停止摩天大樓裡紙醉金迷的生活……

'Later, as he sat on his 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.'

Within the walls of a high-tech forty-storey high-rise, the residents are hell-bent on an orgy of sex and destruction, answering to primal urges that their utopian surroundings can't satisfy. The high-rise is a would-be paradise turned dystopia, ruled by intimidation and violence, and, as the residents organize themselves for war, floor against floor, no one wants it to stop …

同名改編電影由 Film4 及英國電影協會製作，班懷特利導演 （Ben Wheatley）、艾米強普（Amy Jump）編劇，好萊塢知名演巨星《雷神索爾》湯姆希德斯頓（Tom Hiddleston）、《天菜大廚》席安娜米勒（Sienna Miller）、《蝙蝠俠對超人》傑瑞米艾朗（Jeremy Irons）以及《德古拉：永咒傳奇》路克伊凡斯（Luke Evans）等人領銜主演。電影於二○一六年四月廿二日上映。

■巴拉德／J. G. Ballard

J. G. Ballard was born in 1930 in Shanghai, where his father was a businessman. After internment in a civilian prison camp, he and his family returned to England in 1946. He published his first novel, The Drowned World, in 1961. His 1984 bestseller Empire of the Sun won the Guardian Fiction Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. His memoir Miracles of Life was published in 2008. J. G. Ballard died in 2009.

作者：巴拉德／J. G. Ballard

版本：Film tie-in edition

規格：平裝／Paperback，12.7 x 19.7 x 2.1 cm，250頁

出版商：HarperCollins Publishers

商標：4th Estate

出版日期：2016年03月10日

語言：英文

ISBN-13：978-0-00-813489-1

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