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"The Wopuld family have built their fortune on a board game called Empire. It has transferred remarkably well to the computer generation and now the American Spraint company wants to buy them out. Alban, head of the family, thinks the Yanks should be treated with suspicion - but he also has other things on this mind. Dark secrets, a long-lost love affair and a multi-million-pound gaming business lie at the heart of Iain Banks' fabulous new novel."--Publisher.
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Classical in form, contemporary, grave and spare.
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- sparerichly built
- earnestironic
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- Author
- Iain Banks
- First published
- 2007
- Pages
- 400
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group Limited, Time Warner AudioBooks, Retailer-exclusive titles
- Editions
- 18
- Language
- English, und, Russian
- ISBN
- 9780316731065
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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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