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DEAD AIR.**

DEAD AIR.**

DEAD AIR.**
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DEAD AIR.**

by BANKS**, IAIN:

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ISBN 10
0316860549
ISBN 13
9780316860543
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UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[He wrote mainstream fiction under the name Iain Banks and science fiction as Iain M. Banks,including the initial of his adopted middle name Menzies.] NFINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn, and no price-clip (£16.99) to dw/dj.Bright,clean,white background,sepia scenic photographic illustrated upper panel of dw/dj with white lettering,black lettering (critics' reviews) to rear panel; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Minisculely bumped with reciprocal creasing to both head+foot of spine/backstrip, front inner flap's lower corner lightly creased,as is the rear's top edge of the rear inner flap - all constituting the majority of the creasing.To both front+rear board's top edges towards spine /backstrip's gutter edges, have some inexplicable minor,minimal indentations - but without commensurate indentations on dw/dj.Described hard but fairly and honestly - nowhere as bad as it reads or would appear on viewing.Top edges aged/toned - as usual - with some minimal dust-soiling,fore-edges less aged/toned so brighter and cleaner; contents bright - apart from page-edge toning - tight,solid and sound - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages corners.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original,plain dark brown cloth boards with bright,crisp,stamped white ink letters to spine/backstrip and bright,immaculate plain white eps.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,3-408pp [paginated] includes 13 chapters - each with a small b/w photograph vignette (from dw/dj design) chapter headpiece, plus [unpaginated],half-title+title pages,a dedication,contents list/table, and chapter separator pages. Want more Iain BANKS titles? For similar and other available titles - please search my MODERN FIRSTS,MODERN FIRSTS2,1001 Book You Must Read Before You Die and SIGNED catalogues. Iain Banks' new novel starts with a bang and then accelerates through one man's political obsessions,manic media manipulations and wildly dangerous private life,speeding through a London of pubs,clubs and geezers of extreme dodginess to a twinned climax of nail-shredding intensity.A novel about politics,trust,paranoia and - perhaps - redemption, 'Dead Air' is Ian Banks at his coruscating best. 'Dead Air' is a deliberate parody of the cynicism of political and social self-awareness."Shock-jock" Ken Nott's politics,while palatable to most contemporary readers,are also presented through such a morally bankrupt man that they are rendered as unpalatable as the Holocaust-refuter whom Nott attempts to thwart by punching in the face (and then denying it ever happened).Bank focuses on a series of set piece hypotheses about the state of the world in the new century,in which he highlights the preoccupation of the middle classes with their own beliefs, while at the same time exposing the individual to the reader's scrutiny. There is little to endear Ken Nott to the reader,and his promiscuous, expensive lifestyle has all of the hallmarks of 1980's callousness, spread with a veneer of pseudo-socilaim that indeed makes it the perfect reflection of the downmarket world of "bright young things" in the early 2000's.In 'Dead Air',Banks is once again engaged by the recurring subtexts of the new millennium - avarice,cynicism,and pretensions to libertarianism.[EMcCS.] Please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!

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Dead Air is a novel by the Scottish writer Iain Banks, published in 2002.

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Bookseller's Inventory #
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Title
DEAD AIR.**
Author
BANKS**, IAIN:
Book Condition
Used - NFINE.
Jacket Condition
NFINE.
Quantity Available
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Edition
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN 10
0316860549
ISBN 13
9780316860543
Publisher
LONDON.LITTLE,BROWN,2002.
Place of Publication
London
This edition first published
September 5, 2002
Keywords
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