I’ll be doing these all through November, because NaNoWriMo.
High-Rise, J.G. Ballard
High-Rise is about a super-high-rise tower, designed as a self-sufficient vertical city, whose inhabitants all go a bit Lord of the Flies. A seminal text for thinking about the social effects of architecture and city planning, but content notes for gender essentialism, sexual violence, animal cruelty and general gore.
Word count:Â 49
The English Student 