The quarry
By: Iain Banks
Edition: First US trade edition.
Publisher: Redhook
Published: April 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 327
ISBN-13: 9780316281836
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Teenage boys; Fiction; Families; Dysfunctional families
Description: Kit doesn't know who his mother is. What he does know, however, is that his father, Guy, is dying of cancer. Feeling his death is imminent, Guy gathers around him his oldest friends - or at least the friends with the most to lose by his death. Paul - the rising star in the Labour party who dreads the day a tape they all made at university might come to light; Alison and Robbie, corporate bunnies whose relationship is daily more fractious; Pris and Haze, once an item, now estranged, and finally Hol - friend, mentor, former lover and the only one who seemed to care. But what will happen to Kit when Guy is gone? And why isn't Kit's mother in the picture? As the friends reunite for Guy's last days, old jealousies, affairs and lies come to light as Kit watches on.