Цитаты из книги High-Rise

Hours on the gymnasium exercises had equipped them for no more than hours on the gymnasium exercises.

Her suede jacket was unbuttoned to reveal a pair of grimy breasts, but her hair was elaborately wound into a mass of rollers, as if she were preparing parts of her body for some formal gala to which the rest of herself had not been invited.

...the sloping floor was covered with the skulls, bones and dismembered limbs of dozens of corpses. Tangled together where they had been flung, they lay about like the tenants of a crowded beach visited by a sudden holocaust.

трезвая, она становилась до утомления чувствительной и бродила по коридорам с отсутствующим видом, словно потеряла ключи от мозга. зато после нескольких коктейлей она оживлялась, её настроение прыгало подобно тому, как испорченный телевизор скачет по программам.