Summary
Iain Banks’ daring new novel opens in a loft apartment in the East End, in a former factory due to be knocked down in a few days. Ken Nott is a devoutly contrarian vaguely left wing radio shock-jock living in London. After a wedding breakfast people start dropping fruits from a balcony on to a deserted carpark ten storeys below, then they start dropping other things; an old TV that doesn’t work, a blown loudspeaker, beanbags, other unwanted furniture… Then they get carried away and start drop…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780349139241 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0349139245 |
| Author: | Iain Banks |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Abacus |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 448 |
| Release Date: | 10 June 2013 |
| Weight: | 304g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 130mm x 28mm |
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Critics Review
Banks has pulled off a great double - a deeply satirical and though-provoking thriller that will make you laugh but will also have you shredding your fingernails– SUNDAY EXPRESS
A thrilling read, it’s a dazzlingly clever, edgy, suspenseful book * Scotland on Sunday *Hugely entertaining * Daily Telegraph *Banks’s clever, tense book gives a good idea of where fiction might usefully go with this material. Staying away from the media described events at Ground Zero, he impressively details the social aftermath in London: paranoia on underground trains and in high buildings, suspicion of foreigners, a delirious new edge to political argument and sexual encounters – Mark Lawson * Guardian *A Buchanesque adventure yarn set in twenty-first-century London * The Times *
About The Author
Iain Banks
Iain Banks came to widespread and controversial public notice with the publication of his first novel, THE WASP FACTORY, in 1984. He has since gained enormous popular and critical acclaim for both his mainstream and his science fiction novels.
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