Iain Banks THE STEEP APPROACH TO GARBADALE Signed Hardback
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Iain Banks THE STEEP APPROACH TO GARBADALE Signed Hardback
First edition, first reprint hardback of THE STEEP APPROACH TO GARBADALE, by Iain Banks and published by Little, Brown & Company, London, in 2007. Signed and inscribed by Banks on the title page.The book is in very good condition (Clean red cloth boards with white lettering on the spine) with only minor shelf wear to the illustrated dust jacket, which is not price clipped (light creasing to edges). Internally, the pages are clean and tight and there are no tears and no other inscriptions.
Iain M. Banks is now acclaimed as one of the most powerful, innovative and exciting writers of his generation: The Guardian has called him "the standard by which the rest of SF is judged".
"The Wopuld family built its fortune on a board game called Empire! - now a hugely successful computer game. So successful, the American Spraint Corp wants to buy the firm out. Young renegade Alban, who has been living wild and evading the family tentacles for years, is run to ground and persuaded to attend the forthcoming gathering - part birthday celebration, part Extraordinary General Meeting - convened by Win, the Wopuld matriarch and most powerful member of the board.
Alban, at first reluctant to involve himself in the buyout, increasingly thinks Spraint Corp and its executives, Fromlax and Feaguing, should be treated with suspicion. But he also has other things on his mind.
Being drawn back into the bosom of the clan brings inevitable and disconcerting confrontation with his past. What drove his mother to take her own life? And is he yet over Sophie, his beautiful enchanting cousin and teenage love? Grandmother Win's revelations will radically alter Alban's perspective for ever."
'Banks is at his best in moments of high drama with extremes of human emotions.' The Observer
'Still a master. Banks's evocation of the tortures and travails of first love is moving and lyrical.' Independent
390 pages.
ISBN: 0 316 73105 8
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