Stonemouth - Hardcover

Banks, Iain

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1605983829 ISBN 13: 9781605983820

Publisher: Pegasus Crime, 2012

Synopsis

Stewart Gilmour is back in Stonemouth, Scotland. After five years in exile his presence is required at the funeral of local patriarch Joe Murston, even though the last time Stewart saw the Murstons he was running for his life. An estuary town north of Aberdeen, Stonemouth, with its five mile beach, can be beautiful on a sunny day. On a bleak one it can seem to offer little more than sea fog, gangsters, cheap drugs, and a suspension bridge irresistible to suicides. And although there's supposed to be a temporary truce between Stewart and the town's biggest crime family, it's soon clear that only Stewart is taking this promise of peace seriously. Before long a quick drop into the cold, grey Stoun River begins to look like the easy option, but as he steps back into the minefield of his past to confront his guilt and all that it has lost him, Stewart uncovers ever darker stories, and his homecoming takes a more lethal turn than even he had anticipated. Tough, funny, fast-paced, and touching, renowned storyteller Iain Banks poignantly evokes adolescence, love, brotherhood, and vengeance in a rite-of-passage novel unlike any other.

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Review:

Readable, gripping . . . One of his best (Evening Standard - William Leith)

'There is more than a shade of Pip and Estella in Stewart and Ellie, and to create an emotionally satisfying while intellectually convincing ending is a rare achievement . . . Beguiling (Guardian - Stuart Kelly)

The mythology of Stewart's past, and of Stonemouth itself, is utterly absorbing. Addictive, funny, and brilliantly observed (Daily Mail)

Banks at his waspish, intelligent, nuanced best. His fans will give thanks (Scotland on Sunday)

Readable, gripping . . . One of his best (William Leith Evening Standard)

'There is more than a shade of Pip and Estella in Stewart and Ellie, and to create an emotionally satisfying while intellectually convincing ending is a rare achievement . . . Beguiling (Stuart Kelly Guardian)

Book Description:

Iain Banks at his very best - his funniest, grittiest and most exciting novel yet.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pegasus Crime
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1605983829
• ISBN 13: 9781605983820
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 357