Iain Banks - The Quarry (17 Jun 2013) Epub, Mobi

Iain Banks - The Quarry (17 Jun 2013) Epub, Mobi

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Format: Kindle Edition
File Size: 483 KB
Print Length: 337 pages
Page Numbers Source ISBN: 1408703955
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group (17 Jun 2013)
Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.
Language: English
http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Quarry-ebook/dp/B00B27ED1M

Product Description
Book Description
The new novel from Iain Banks, the bestselling author of The Wasp Factory.

Product Description
Kit doesn't know who his mother is. What he does know, however, is that his father, Guy, is dying of cancer. Feeling his death is imminent, Guy gathers around him his oldest friends - or at least the friends with the most to lose by his death. Paul - the rising star in the Labour party who dreads the day a tape they all made at university might come to light; Alison and Robbie, corporate bunnies whose relationship is daily more fractious; Pris and Haze, once an item, now estranged, and finally Hol - friend, mentor, former lover and the only one who seemed to care.

But what will happen to Kit when Guy is gone? And why isn't Kit's mother in the picture? As the friends reunite for Guy's last days, old jealousies, affairs and lies come to light as Kit watches on.

From the Inside Flap
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 in the Pennines. 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; 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 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.

From the Back Cover
Praise for Iain Banks

'The most imaginative novelist of his generation' The Times
'Ingenious, daring and brilliant' Guardian
A novelist of remarkable talents' Daily Telegraph
'One of the most able, energetic and stimulating writers in the UK' Time Out

About the Author
Iain Banks came to widespread and controversial public notice with the publication of his first novel, The Wasp Factory, in 1984. He has since gained enormous popular and critical acclaim for both his mainstream and his science fiction novels.