<p>‘Aldiss delivers his storylines with joie de vivre, his dialogue is impeccable, and his narrative is glazed with customary wit.’ DAILY TELEGRAPH</p>
<p>‘A crisply philosophical novel on the the topic of disaster.’ DAILY EXPRESS</p>

The third book in the Squire Quartet. Russian born Dominic is one of the success stories of the eighties, when yuppies made fortunes on the stock market . Ray Tebbutt is among the unlucky ones. He was involved in a bankruptcy in the mid-eighties . Peter Petrik, a dissident Czech film director, lives in Prague, dreaming of making more films when times improve . The lifelines of these people and others – comic and sad by turns in true Aldiss fashion – converge towards the finality of an IRA bomb episode in Great Yarmouth.
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The third book in the Squire Quartet.
‘Frightening, gripping… not one for the squeamish’ ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS ‘The best of British science fiction writers’ THE SCOTSMAN ‘A rattling good yarn’ DAILY TELEGRAPH ‘Aldiss is a magician’ SUNDAY TIMES• The Brian Aldiss back catalogue is now available in e-format for the first time. Competition: Bull Mountain; Luckiest Girl Alive; The Good Liar; Past Imperfect; A Year Of Marvellous Ways. Philip K. Dick;Brian Aldiss; Brian Panowich; Jessica Knoll; Nicholas Searle; Julian Fellowes; Sarah Winman;
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Product details

ISBN
9780007461189
Published
2012-05-21
Publisher
Vendor
The Friday Project Limited
Weight
125 gr
Height
198 mm
Width
129 mm
Thickness
15 mm
Age
00, G, 01
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
293

Author

Biographical note

Brian Aldiss, OBE, is a fiction and science fiction writer, poet, playwright, critic, memoirist and artist. He was born in Norfolk in 1925. After leaving the army, Aldiss worked as a bookseller, which provided the setting for his first book, The Brightfount Diaries (1955). His first published science fiction work was the story ‘Criminal Record’, which appeared in Science Fantasy in 1954. Since then he has written nearly 100 books and over 300 short stories.