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Stonemouth - Iain Banks
Stonemouth
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By the author of The Wasp Factory, the long-awaited and stunning new novel from the unrivaled Iain BanksStewart Gilmour is back in Stonemouth, Scotland.  After five years in exile his presence is required at the funeral of local patriarch Joe Murston, even though the last time Stewart saw the ... show more
By the author of The Wasp Factory, the long-awaited and stunning new novel from the unrivaled Iain BanksStewart Gilmour is back in Stonemouth, Scotland.  After five years in exile his presence is required at the funeral of local patriarch Joe Murston, even though the last time Stewart saw the Murstons he was running for his life. An estuary town north of Aberdeen, Stonemouth, with its five mile beach, can be beautiful on a sunny day. On a bleak one it can seem to offer little more than sea fog, 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 River begins to look like the easy option, but as he steps back into the minefield of his past to confront his guilt and all that it has lost him, Stewart uncovers ever darker stories, and his homecoming takes a more lethal turn than even he had anticipated. Tough, funny, fast-paced, and touching, renowned storyteller Iain Banks poignantly evokes adolescence, love, brotherhood, and vengeance in a rite-of-passage novel unlike any other.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN: 9781605983820 (1605983829)
Publisher: Pegasus
Pages no: 448
Edition language: English
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Pauline's Fantasy Reviews
Pauline's Fantasy Reviews rated it
3.0 Stonemouth
This is one of those odd books that I found enjoyable to read at the time, but when I put it down, I lapsed into so-what? apathy. The premise is a fairly trite one. A mid-twenties man returns to his childhood home for a funeral, and spends the time reminiscing about growing up, being astonished at t...
To Shoot or Not to Shoot
To Shoot or Not to Shoot rated it
4.0 Stonemouth - iain Banks
This book should be filed on my shelves with the other romantic thrillers that I love so much (Joan Aiken The Butterfly Picnic and a few more, Mary Stewart Touch Not the Cat and a few more). It's as if Iain Banks heard my pleading for more books like this - and just tossed one off - just for me. It ...
The Boat Was My Friend
The Boat Was My Friend rated it
3.0 (Don't) fear the mainstream
Stonemouth is a stuffy small Scottish town, dominated by two competing, although not hostile, local gangster families. This is where the unbelievably annoying, egocentric and know-it-all protagonist, Stewart Gilmour, returns to attend the funeral of the old head of one of these families and to, unin...
To Shoot or Not to Shoot
To Shoot or Not to Shoot rated it
4.0 Stonemouth
This book should be filed on my shelves with the other romantic thrillers that I love so much (Joan Aiken The Butterfly Picnic and a few more, Mary Stewart Touch Not the Cat and a few more). It's as if Iain Banks heard my pleading for more books like this - and just tossed one off - just for me. It ...
Bettie's Books
Bettie's Books rated it
2.0 Stonemouth
bookshelves: radio-4, spring-2012, fradio, published-2012, gangsters, britain-scotland, recreational-drugs Read from March 17 to 31, 2012 Book at Bedtime : Stewart Gilmour returns home to Stonemouth after fleeing five years ago.bbc synopsis - Stewart Gilmour is back in Stonemouth. After five yea...
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