Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw, now mylar sleeved. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Copy is not price-clipped.; 205 pages; Physical description. : xviii, 205 p. ; 24 cm. Subject: Marginality, Social - Scotland - Fife - Fiction. Coal mines and mining - Scotland - Fife - Fiction. Fife (Scotland) - Fiction.
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A must for lovers of Rankin (GOOD BOOK GUIDE)
Full of secrets and revelations, with an atmospheric sense of time and place, it has Rankin's signature darkness (CHOICE)
It wouldn't take a Rebus to sleuth out the telltale signs of a talent in the making (Chris Power THE TIMES)
In 1986, a small Scottish publishing firm released a first novel by a talented young writer. Only a few hundred copies were printed but it was a literary milestone nonetheless. The book was THE FLOOD. The author was Ian Rankin...
Mary Miller had always been an outcast. As a young girl she had fallen into the hot burn - a torrent of warm chemical run-off from the local coal mine. Fished out white-haired and half-dead, sympathy for her quickly faded when the young man who pushed her in died in a mining accident just two days later. From then on she was regarded with a mixture of suspicion and fascination by her God-fearing community.
Now, years later she is hardly less alone. She is the mother of a bastard son, Sandy, and caught up in a faltering affair with a local teacher. Sandy, meanwhile, has fallen in love with a strange homeless girl. The search for happiness isn't easy. Both mother and son must face a dark secret from their past, in the growing knowledge that their small dramas are being played out against a much larger canvas, glimpsed only in symbols and flickering images - of decay and regrowth, of fire and water - of the flood.
THE FLOOD is both a coming-of-age novel and an amazing portrait of a time and place. Proto-Rankin as it is, it's dark, atmospheric and powerful - a remarkable debut from a remarkable author.
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Hardback. Condición: Good. The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine. Nº de ref. del artículo: GOR002938826
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Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. Remainder mark. Nice, clean copy. Book. Nº de ref. del artículo: 004831 8858
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Librería: Library House Internet Sales, Grand Rapids, OH, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. Ian Rankin's first ever novel - unavailable for nearly twenty years and now published with a brand-new introduction. Due to age and/or environmental conditions, the pages of this book have darkened. Mylar protector included. Solid binding. Moderate shelf wear. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Book. Nº de ref. del artículo: 123753620
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