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Kate Telman is a senior executive officer in The Business, a powerful and massively discreet transglobal organisation. Financially transparent, internally democratic and disavowing conventional familial inheritance, the character of The Business seems, even to Kate, to be vague to the point of invisibility.
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Contemporary, classical in form, grave and epic.
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
- cooloverwhelming
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- Author
- Iain Banks
- First published
- 1999
- Pages
- 393
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group Limited, Little, Brown, Scribner Paperback Fiction
- Editions
- 13
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780316848633
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“My name is Kathryn Telman.”
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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