The new novel from Iain Banks, the bestselling author of The Wasp Factory.
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.
Eerily compelling
*Evening Standard*
The Quarry is not a book to be afraid of. It is a novel shot
through with Banks' trademark humour, political engagement and
humour . . . Banks has always been adept at evoking friendship,
with its illogical loyalties and messes
*The Times*
It's a sign that in Banks we had a novelist of supreme subtlety and
won who, in fiction as in life, and for all the concentrated horror
of his debut novel, all the epic estrangements of his "skiffy"
(sci-fi), and all the grimness of his final months, had an
irrepressibly sense of fun that is evident on every page of The
Quarry
*Independent*
As always with Banks the dialogue is a sheer delight, whether it be
baleful drink-and-drug fuelled reminiscence or bickering
one-upmanship . . . It is the central characterisations that give
the novel its power . . . Banks handles the challenge brilliantly .
. . Despite his cruelty, most readers will adore Guy. It helps that
his expletive-filled jeremiads comprise some of the funniest
writing Banks has ever produced . . . But then for twenty-nine
years Banks has made it his business to inspire sympathy for
monsters . . . It may be this element of compassion that accounts
for why so many readers are now experiencing a keen grief for the
loss of a writer who has the rare gift of being infallibly
entertaining
*Daily Telegraph*
This is vintage Banks, full of heart, black comedy and vitriol, and
is sure to delight his fans
*Sunday Mirror*
Eerily compelling -- William Leith * Evening Standard *
The Quarry is not a book to be afraid of. It is a novel shot
through with Banks' trademark humour, political engagement and
humour . . . Banks has always been adept at evoking friendship,
with its illogical loyalties and messes -- Louise Welsh * The Times
*
It's a sign that in Banks we had a novelist of supreme subtlety and
won who, in fiction as in life, and for all the concentrated horror
of his debut novel, all the epic estrangements of his "skiffy"
(sci-fi), and all the grimness of his final months, had an
irrepressibly sense of fun that is evident on every page of The
Quarry -- Brian Morton * Independent *
As always with Banks the dialogue is a sheer delight, whether it be
baleful drink-and-drug fuelled reminiscence or bickering
one-upmanship . . . It is the central characterisations that give
the novel its power . . . Banks handles the challenge brilliantly .
. . Despite his cruelty, most readers will adore Guy. It helps that
his expletive-filled jeremiads comprise some of the funniest
writing Banks has ever produced . . . But then for twenty-nine
years Banks has made it his business to inspire sympathy for
monsters . . . It may be this element of compassion that accounts
for why so many readers are now experiencing a keen grief for the
loss of a writer who has the rare gift of being infallibly
entertaining -- Jake Kerridge * Daily Telegraph *
This is vintage Banks, full of heart, black comedy and vitriol, and
is sure to delight his fans * Sunday Mirror *
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