Rise

ead this one, half on a train, half at my mom’s mountain lair. It’s written by J.G. Ballard (famous for Empire of the Sun) and is the story of a mixed-class forty story (or is that “storey”) high rise residential building in London, specifically out on the Isle of Dogs. And how, when the social order breaks down, how bad it can get. The story centers on three people, each representing one of the social classes. Richard Wilder, a documentary-maker down on the lower ten (the lower class). Then in the middle-reaches is Dr. Robert Laing. And up on the […]