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Reviews
Vintage Banks, full of heart, black comedy and vitriol.
Vintage Banks, full of heart, black comedy and vitriol
Banks' handling of big, complex themes is skilful and satisfying, and he concludes on a quietly moving note of compassion.
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
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
A novel shot through with Banks's trademark humour, political engagement and hope.
Infallibly entertaining
A quietly incendiary piece of writing, at times heartbreaking, at other times really wonderfully funny... a profoundly humane, funny and smart novel
Banks' handling of big, complex themes is skilful and satisfying, and he concludes on a quietly moving note of compassion
Shot through with Banks' trademark humour, political engagement and hope
Wonderfully exuberant ... written with the life-enhancing verve characteristic of Banks's best work.
A quietly incendiary piece of writing, at times heartbreaking, at other times really wonderfully funny ... a profoundly humane, funny and smart novel.
Wonderfully exuberant... written with the life-enhancing verve characteristic of Banks' best work
Infallibly entertaining
This is a novel that's perched at the dangerous edge of things, looking down. It's an urgent novel and an important one
A compelling, raw book
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.
A compelling, raw book