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"When it was over, and the last notes died, finally giving themselves up to the air, to the flesh of her fingertips and to the ancient wood of the instrument, she kept her eyes closed for a time, still in her deep red cave of heartache and loss.
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Grave, contemporary, classical in form and earnest.
- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- warmbleak
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- Author
- Iain Banks
- First published
- 1989
- Pages
- 281
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group Limited, Heyne, Little, Brown
- Editions
- 10
- Language
- English, Russian, German
- ISBN
- 9780333517680
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Iain Banks (16 February 1954 – 9 June 2013) was a Scottish author. He wrote mainstream fiction under the name Iain Banks, and science fiction as Iain M. Banks, including the initial of his adopted middle name Menzies. In 2008, The Times named Banks in their list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945". Source: Wikipedia
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