FICTION
Released: Nov. 15, 2012
"Contemporary, hilarious, gritty--yes, this is genre fiction, and no, the genre doesn't get much better than this."
This novel considers the question of how to return home after a long absence, particularly when your ex-fiancee is the eldest daughter of a local crime boss.
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FICTION
Released: Oct. 9, 2012
"Sheer delight."
Addition to Banks' wonderful space-opera series (without the middle initial, he also writes impressive mainstream novels) about the far-future galactic Culture (
Surface Detail, 2010, etc.), a liberal-anarchic, multispecies civilization guided and sustained, more or less invisibly, by Minds, artificial intelligences that take such physical forms as spaceships and habitats.
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FICTION
Released: Aug. 1, 2001
"By turns imposing, ingenious, whimsical, and wrenching, though too amorphous to fully satisfy."
FICTION
Released: Nov. 8, 2000
"Sprinkled with erudite puns ("Was I a Freudian? . . . no, I was a Schadenfreudian") and topical references: a smart, breezy, entertainment--something John Grisham might have written if, say, he were a better stylist with more imagination."
From the usually thought-provoking, even disturbing, Banks (
A Song of Stone, 1998, etc.) comes a clever, well-paced, but surprisingly slight business thriller.
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FICTION
Released: Jan. 11, 2000
"Atmospheric, ironic, resourceful, and all the parts add up—yet something sets the teeth on edge."
Another book that, despite a June 1998 UK hardcover and a May 1999 UK paperback, the US publishers somehow were unable to convey to Kirkus swiftly enough for a timely pre-publication review.
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FICTION
Released: Sept. 1, 1998
"Not for the squeamish, but those looking for a confrontational work will find this a daring, deeply unsettling meditation on the very human face of evil."
A grim, mordant portrait of the corrosive effects of moral corruption and a generalized atmosphere of violence, played out against the brutal background of a Bosnian-style war.
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