The less affluent people on the lower floors are too busy with their children to throw elaborate parties. Laing has an eye out for the ladies, and he often gets invited to cocktail parties usually hosted by the well-to-do childless couples on the upper floors. We see events in the building through the eyes of the recently divorced doctor Robert Laing who has an apartment on the twenty-fifth floor. Except to go to work, the residents find little reason to leave the building. We readers don’t even find out what city or country the high-rise is located in, because the building is pretty much self-contained with its own supermarket, swimming pools, high-speed elevators, exercise facilities, restaurants, and liquor stores. ‘High-Rise’ is a unique novel rescued from the 1970s which will soon be a major movie starring Tom Hiddleston, Jeremy Irons, and Sienna Miller.Ībout 2000 people live in the 40-floor high-rise luxury apartment building.
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