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With a powerful American corporation trying to buy the rights to the Wopuld family's hugely successful computer game, Empire!, family renegade Alban, who makes his living as a wilderness ranger in Scotland, is summoned back to the fold to help stop the upcoming sale, but first Alban must confront his mother's suicide and his ill-fated love affair with his cousin Sophie. Simultaneous.
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** 'Banks begins his most consistent book since THE CROW ROAD with slaight-of-hand tricks displaying the master in rude form ... These shifts in voice are so perfect, so clean and witty that when Alban comes to the fore, we feel he's one of is ... the maturit (WATERSTONES BOOKS QUARTERLY)
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** 'Banks begins his most consistent book since THE CROW ROAD with slaight-of-hand tricks displaying the master in rude form ... These shifts in voice are so perfect, so clean and witty that when Alban comes to the fore, we feel he's one of is ... the maturit (WATERSTONES BOOKS QUARTERLY)
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- PublisherMacadam Cage Pub
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 1596922710
- ISBN 13 9781596922716
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages390
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Publisher: MacAdam/Cage, 2007. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover is in very good condition (torn on the front cover and on the inside of the back cover, bumped on the bottom of the spine, bumped on the bottom corner of the back cover, bumped on the bottom edge of the front and back covers, rubbed on the front and back covers, residue on the back cover and soiled). Dust jacket is in near-fine condition (minor edge wear). Brodart protected. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The Wopuld family built its' fortune on a board game called Empire! - now a hugely successful computer game. So successful, the American Corporation wants to buy the family out. Young renegade Alban, who has been living wild and evading the family tentacles for years, is run to ground and persuaded to attend the forthcoming gathering - part birthday celebration, part Extraordinary General Meeting - convened by Win, the Wopuld matriarch and most powerful member of the board. Being drawn back into the bosom of the clan brings an inevitable and disconcerting confrontation with Alban's past. What drove his mother to take her own life? And is he yet over Sophie, his beautiful, enchanting cousin and teenage love? Grandmother Win's revelations will radically alter Alban's perspective forever. Full of his trademark warmth, humanity and inventiveness, this wonderfully vivid story of family turmoil, compromised loyalties and hidden origins is Iain Banks' most compelling novel since The Crow Road. Seller Inventory # 11303
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. an Francisco, CA MacAdam/Cage Publishing 2007 Hard cover Nrear fine book in a very good+ dustjacked (wrinkle to bottom rear). First American hardcover edition, first printing. The Wopuld family built its fortune on a board game called Empire! - now a hugely successful computer game. So successful, the American Spraint Corp wants to buy the firm out. Young renegade Alban, who has been living wild and evading the family tentacles for years, is run to ground and persuaded to attend the forthcoming gathering - part birthday celebration, part Extraordinary General Meeting - convened by Win, the Wopuld matriarch and most powerful member of the board. Being drawn back into the bosom of the clan brings an inevitable and disconcerting confrontation with Alban's past. What drove his mother to take her own life? And is he yet over Sophie, his beautiful, enchanting cousin and teenage love? Grandmother Win's revelations will radically alter Alban's perspective for ever. Full of his trademark warmth, humanity and inventiveness, this wonderfully vivid story of family turmoil, compromised loyalties and hidden origins is Iain Banks's most compelling novel since The Crow Road. Seller Inventory # 001558
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