Welcome to 'stonemouth. Home to 'stewart Gilmour. Or at least it used to be, until an incident with the town's biggest crime family forced him into exile. Now 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 its five-mile beach, can be beautiful on a sunny day. On a bleak one it seems to offer little more than seafog, gangsters, cheap drugs and a suspension bridge irresistible to suicides. And although there's supposed to be a truce, it's soon clear that only 'stewart is taking this promise of peace seriously. A 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 cost him, 'stu's 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.

The author:
Iain Banks came to widespread and controversial public notice with the publication of his first novel, THE WA'sP FACTORY, in 1984. He has since gained enormous popular and critical acclaim for both his mainstream and his science fiction novels.

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Taal / Language : English

Extra informatie: Ingenaaid: paperback,kaft slap Verschenen: maart 2012 Gewicht: 486 gram Formaat: 234 x 153 x 27 mm Little Brown

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