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Title
The quarry
The quarry
Author
Iain M. Banks
Iain M. Banks
format
Hardback
Hardback
Publisher
Redhook
Redhook
Language
English
English
UK Publication Date
20130625
20130625
Description
Eighteen-year-old Kit is weird: big, strange, odd, socially disabled,
on a spectrum that stretches from "highly gifted" at one end, to "nutter" at the other. At least Kit knows who his father is; he and Guy live together in a decaying country house on the unstable brink of a
vast quarry. His mother's identity is another matter. Now, though, his father's dying, and old friends are gathering for one last time.
"Uncle" Paul's a media lawyer now; Rob and Ali are upwardly mobile
corporate bunnies; pretty, hopeful Pris is a single mother; Haze is
still living up to his drug-inspired name twenty years on; and fierce,
protective Hol is a gifted if acerbic critic. As young film students
they lived at Willoughtree House with Guy, and they've all come back
because they want something. Kit, too, has his own ulterior motives. Before his
father dies he wants to know who his mother is, and what's on the
mysterious tape they're all looking for. But most of all he wants to
stop time and keep his father alive.
Fast-paced, gripping and savagely funny, The Quarry
is a virtuoso performance whose soaring riffs on the inexhaustible
marvel of human perception and rage against the dying of the light will
stand among Iain Banks' greatest work.
on a spectrum that stretches from "highly gifted" at one end, to "nutter" at the other. At least Kit knows who his father is; he and Guy live together in a decaying country house on the unstable brink of a
vast quarry. His mother's identity is another matter. Now, though, his father's dying, and old friends are gathering for one last time.
"Uncle" Paul's a media lawyer now; Rob and Ali are upwardly mobile
corporate bunnies; pretty, hopeful Pris is a single mother; Haze is
still living up to his drug-inspired name twenty years on; and fierce,
protective Hol is a gifted if acerbic critic. As young film students
they lived at Willoughtree House with Guy, and they've all come back
because they want something. Kit, too, has his own ulterior motives. Before his
father dies he wants to know who his mother is, and what's on the
mysterious tape they're all looking for. But most of all he wants to
stop time and keep his father alive.
Fast-paced, gripping and savagely funny, The Quarry
is a virtuoso performance whose soaring riffs on the inexhaustible
marvel of human perception and rage against the dying of the light will
stand among Iain Banks' greatest work.
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