Eighteen-year-old Kit is weird: big, strange, odd, socially disabled, on a spectrum that stretches from "highly gifted" at one end, to "nutter" at the other.
He has since gained enormous popular and critical acclaim for both his mainstream and his science fiction novels..
About the Author: Iain Banks came to controversial public notice with the publication of his first novel, The Wasp Factory, in 1984.
Fast-paced, gripping and savagely funny, The Quarry is a virtuoso performance whose soaring riffs on the inexhaustible marvel of human perception and rage against the dying of the light will stand among Iain Banks\' greatest work.
But most of all he wants to stop time and keep his father alive.
Before his father dies he wants to know who his mother is, and what\'s on the mysterious tape they\'re all looking for.
Kit, too, has his own ulterior motives.
As young film students they lived at Willoughtree House with Guy, and they\'ve all come back because they want something. "Uncle" Paul\'s a media lawyer now
Rob and Ali are upwardly mobile corporate bunnies; pretty, hopeful Pris is a single mother
Haze is still living up to his drug-inspired name twenty years on; and fierce, protective Hol is a gifted if acerbic critic.
Now, though, his father\'s dying, and old friends are gathering for one last time.
His mother\'s identity is another matter.
At least Kit knows who his father is; he and Guy live together in a decaying country house on the unstable brink of a vast quarry.
Eighteen-year-old Kit is weird: big, strange, odd, socially disabled, on a spectrum that stretches from "highly gifted" at one end, to "nutter" at the other
