Remembrance Day (Squire Quartet The) - Softcover

Brian W. Aldiss

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9780007461189: Remembrance Day (Squire Quartet The)

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ISBN 10: 0007461186 ISBN 13: 9780007461189

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers, 2012

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The third book in the Squire Quartet.

Russian born Dominic is one of the success stories of the eighties, when yuppies made fortunes on the stock market .

Ray Tebbutt is among the unlucky ones. He was involved in a bankruptcy in the mid-eighties .

Peter Petrik, a dissident Czech film director, lives in Prague, dreaming of making more films when times improve .

The lifelines of these people and others – comic and sad by turns in true Aldiss fashion – converge towards the finality of an IRA bomb episode in Great Yarmouth.

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About the Author:

Brian Aldiss, OBE, is a fiction and science fiction writer, poet, playwright, critic, memoirist and artist. He was born in Norfolk in 1925. After leaving the army, Aldiss worked as a bookseller, which provided the setting for his first book, The Brightfount Diaries (1955). His first published science fiction work was the story `Criminal Record', which appeared in Science Fantasy in 1954. Since then he has written nearly 100 books and over 300 short stories.

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`Aldiss delivers his storylines with joie de vivre, his dialogue is impeccable, and his narrative is glazed with customary wit.' DAILY TELEGRAPH `A crisply philosophical novel on the the topic of disaster.' DAILY EXPRESS

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