Published by Brown Book Group Redhook Little Nov 2013, 2013
ISBN 10: 0316281867 ISBN 13: 9780316281867
Seller: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Germany
Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -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. 326 pp. Englisch.
Published by Little, Brown Book Group, Redhook Nov 2013, 2013
ISBN 10: 0316281867 ISBN 13: 9780316281867
Seller: Rheinberg-Buch Andreas Meier eK, Bergisch Gladbach, Germany
Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -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. 326 pp. Englisch.
Published by Little, Brown Book Group, Redhook Nov 2013, 2013
ISBN 10: 0316281867 ISBN 13: 9780316281867
Seller: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Germany
Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - 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.
Published by Little, Brown Book Group|Redhook, 2013
ISBN 10: 031627738X ISBN 13: 9780316277389
Seller: moluna, Greven, Germany
Condition: New. Nothing says oops like your naked ass skidding in the salmon mousse. n A year ago, pastry chef Serafina Wilde s seemingly perfect life fell to pieces. So now, when her eccentric Aunt Pauline calls from Santa Fe needing her help, Sera jumps at the chance.
Published by Little, Brown Book Group|Redhook, 2013
ISBN 10: 0316254819 ISBN 13: 9780316254816
Seller: moluna, Greven, Germany
Condition: New. An innocent girl 1920. Seventeen-year-old Sophie is a scullery maid at a large country house, Belfield Hall, but what she truly desires is to dance on stage in London. n Caught up in a dangerous game Glamorous Lady Beatrice offers her assistance, though not.