The Quarry - Hardcover

Banks, Iain

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0316281867 ISBN 13: 9780316281867

Publisher: Orbit, 2013

Synopsis

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.

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Review:

Eerily compelling (William Leith Evening Standard)

Book Description:

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

About this edition

• Publisher: Orbit
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0316281867
• ISBN 13: 9780316281867
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 326