[book_talk] book review the quarry by Iain Banks.
- From: Ian McNamara <ianmcnamara92@xxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2015 04:14:55 +0000
The quarry.
by Ian Banks.
synopses.
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.
my comments.
I would recommend this book although it was not as good as i expected and was
left disappointed at the end. I felt that the language was a little two over
the top and also the book did not really go anywhere in my opinion. 3 out of 5
purely because it kept me interested enough to want to know what happened at
the end and also there were some really good and funny bits in it.
Ian McNamara
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