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The Quarry

Paperback / ISBN-13: 9780349138596

Price: £9.99

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Reviews

Vintage Banks, full of heart, black comedy and vitriol.
Mirror
Vintage Banks, full of heart, black comedy and vitriol
Mirror
Banks' handling of big, complex themes is skilful and satisfying, and he concludes on a quietly moving note of compassion.
The List
Banks's relaxed fluency - the direct, funny, unpretentious intelligence of his writing... along with his teeming imagination, made him perhaps Britain's best-loved major contemporary novelist
Guardian
In Banks we had a novelist of supreme subtlety and one 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 irrepressible sense of fun that is evident on every page of The Quarry
Independent
A novel shot through with Banks's trademark humour, political engagement and hope.
Louise Welsh, The Times
Infallibly entertaining
Telegraph
A quietly incendiary piece of writing, at times heartbreaking, at other times really wonderfully funny... a profoundly humane, funny and smart novel
Independent
Banks' handling of big, complex themes is skilful and satisfying, and he concludes on a quietly moving note of compassion
The List
Shot through with Banks' trademark humour, political engagement and hope
Louise Welsh, The Times
Wonderfully exuberant ... written with the life-enhancing verve characteristic of Banks's best work.
Scotsman
A quietly incendiary piece of writing, at times heartbreaking, at other times really wonderfully funny ... a profoundly humane, funny and smart novel.
Independent
Wonderfully exuberant... written with the life-enhancing verve characteristic of Banks' best work
Scotsman
Infallibly entertaining
Telegraph
This is a novel that's perched at the dangerous edge of things, looking down. It's an urgent novel and an important one
Observer
A compelling, raw book
William Leith, Evening Standard
Banks's relaxed fluency - the direct, funny, unpretentious intelligence of his writing, which, along with his teeming imagination, made him perhaps Britain's best-loved major contemporary novelist.
Guardian
A compelling, raw book
William Leith, Evening Standard