High rise J G Ballard

A blood-curdling satire on a society in which the only goal is to rise higher

"Later, while on his balcony he was eating the dog... This is how J. G. Ballard begins his dystopian vision of 1970s London. In a luxurious forty-story tower block, a class war ensues, with on the twenty-fifth floor, amid the chaos, the doctor Robert Laing. After his divorce, he moves to the fully equipped apartment: a gym, a supermarket, a lush garden on the roof, and the higher you get, the more expensive the apartments are.
Robert Laing quickly falls in love with his intriguing upstairs neighbor Charlotte Melville, who lives one floor above him with her little son. The lower floor houses the documentary filmmaker Richard Wilder, who has his own ideas about the inhabitants of the upper regions.
It won't be long before the residents only have an eye for what is happening in the apartment. All norms and values disappear like snow before the sun, and envy, lust and hatred are rampant. High-Rise is an unprecedentedly sharp and visionary satire on a society that is becoming more and more individual, in which no one gives each other the light in the eyes and 'the other' is no more than an obstacle to - literally - rise higher.