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UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[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.] FINE/FINE. No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,matt,b/w marble(?) effect illustrated dw/dj with glossy black+red lettering to front,similar colour letters to spine/backstrip and rear panel; with negligible shelf-wear,bumping,creasing to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present.Both head+ foot of spine/backstrip minimally bumped with reciprocal creasing.Top+fore-edges bright and clean with no foxing/spotting; contents bright, tight,clean,solid and sound - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips - appears unread apart from my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked silver gilt lettered spine/backstrip and immaculate black flecked red endpapers.UK,8vo HB +dw/dj,1st edn,3-357pp [paginated] includes 19 chapters with story spanning over Friday evening until Tuesday morning,last page as a short, potted biography of author; plus [unpaginated] half-title+ title pages,a dedication,a With thanks page,title separator page,and individual day's separator pages.
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Stewart Gilmour is back in Stonemouth. After five years in exile his presence is required at the funeral of patriarch Joe Murston,and even though the last time Stu saw the Murstons he was running for his life,staying away might be even more dangerous than turning up.
An estuary town north of Aberdeen, Stonemouth with it's five mile beach,can be beautiful on a sunny day.On a bleak one it can seem to offer little more than seafog,gangsters,cheap drugs and a suspension bridge irresistible to suicides.And although there's supposed to be a temporary truce between Stewart and the town's biggest crime family,it's soon clear that only Stewart is taking this promise of peace seriously.Before long a quick drop into the cold grey Stoun begins to look like the soft option and as he steps back into the minefield of his past to confront his guilt and all that it has lost him,Stu uncovers ever darker stories, and his homecoming takes a more lethal turn than even he had anticipated.
Tough,funny,fast paced and touching, 'Stonemouth' cracks open adolescence,love, brotherhood and vengeance in a rite of passage novel like no other.
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