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"Graham Park is in love. But Sara ffitch is an enigma to him, a creature of almost perverse mystery. Steven Grout is paranoid - and with justice. He knows that They are out to get him.
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Contemporary, open-ended, grave and spare.
- contemporarynostalgic
- resolvedopen-ended
- gravecomic
- sparerichly built
- intimateepic
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- Author
- Iain Banks
- First published
- 1985
- Pages
- 248
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group Limited, Argo, Little, Brown
- Editions
- 14
- Language
- English, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9780349101781
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“He walked through the white corridors, past the noticeboards with their offers of small rooms and old cars, past the coffee bar where people sat at tables, past a hole in the white floor where an old chair stood sentry over an opened conduit in which a torch shone and a man crawled, and as he left he looked at his watch: TU 28 pm 3:33”
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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