Dead Air - Hardcover
A loft apartment in London's East End: cool but doomed, demolition and redevelopment slated for the following week. Ken Nott, attending a mid-week wedding lunch, starts dropping stuff off the roof towards the deserted car park a hundred feet below. Other guests join in and soon half the contents of the flat are following the fruit towards the pitted tarmac...just as mobiles start to ring, and the apartment's remaining TV is turned on, because apparently a plane has just crashed into the World Trade Center...
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About the Author:
Originaire de Fife, en Ecosse, et reconnu comme l un des meilleurs ecrivains de sa generation, Iain Banks a publie une trentaine de romans best-sellers, dont le celebre "cycle de La Culture" et "Transition", publie chez Calmann-Levy en 2012. Repute pour ses ouvrages de science-fiction, il est l auteur d une dizaine de romans litteraires, tous salues par la critique. Il est decede en 2013.
Review:
The expectations for each successive Iain Banks novel grow ever greater, and Dead Air is unquestionably a literary event. Ken Nott is making a living as a radio shock-jock in London; he lives in a loft in the East End, in a former factory due to be knocked down. After a wedding breakfast, people begin to throw fruit from a balcony on to a deserted car park ten storeys below; then the guests become carried away and start dropping larger things while wrecking the rest of the apartment. But suddenly mobile phones begin ringing and they're told to turn on the TV, because a plane has just crashed into the World Trade Center. Banks' subject here is nothing less than the survival of the individual in the face of a chaotic world.
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- PublisherTime Warner Books UK
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 0356232700
- ISBN 13 9780356232706
- BindingHardcover
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