Prentice's uncle Rory has disappeared eight years previously while writing a book called The Crow Road. Visitors can view some of BookBrowse for free. A parallel plot is Prentice's gradual transition from an adolescent fixation on one young woman to a more mature love for another. The novel combines menace (it contains an account of a "perfect murder") and dark humour (note the opening sentence: "It was the day my grandmother exploded.") © BookBrowse LLC 1997-2020. in "The BookBrowse Review" - BookBrowse's online-magazine that keeps our members abreast of notable and high-profile books publishing in the coming weeks. William Gibson, the New York Times-bestselling Iain (Menzies) Banks was born in Fife in 1954, and was educated at Stirling Meanwhile, Rory continues to haunt him whenever he's alone. Banks uses multiple voices and points of view, jumping freely in both time and character. Along the way he must cope with estrangement from his father, unrequited love, sibling rivalry, and failure at his studies. His father dogmatically denies the existence of God, universal purpose, and the afterlife. Full access is for members only. The narrative is also fragmentary, leaping days, months, years, or decades back and forth with little or no warning, so the reader must also piece things together. Prentice's efforts to piece together Uncle Rory's fragmentary notes and the minimal clues surrounding his disappearance mirror his efforts to make sense of the world, love, and life in general. Author of his generation: The Guardian called him "the standard by which the I sat in the crematorium, listening to my Uncle Hamish quietly snoring in harmony to Bach's Mass in B Minor, and I reflected that it always seemed to be death that drew me back to Gallanach. "Riveting ... exhilarating ... its pace, development, intensity and, above all, its hip and sexy humour never allow it to flag. Prentice learns more about the past when he finds old floppy disks containing portions of the book Rory was writing. author of Spook Country described Banks as a "phenomenon". with an interesting treatment of love. Information at BookBrowse.com is published with the permission of the copyright holder or their agent. The Crow Road The book, Crow Road was the first book that I have read by author Iain Banks. University, where he studied English Literature, Philosophy and Psychology. The Crow Road, Iain Banks, Abacus, 1992, ISBN 0-349-10323-2, For the miniseries adaptation for television, see, Learn how and when to remove this template message, leaping days, months, years, or decades back and forth, "BOOK REVIEW / Motorway madness: 'The Crow Road' - Iain Banks", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Crow_Road&oldid=984835851, Articles needing additional references from August 2020, All articles needing additional references, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 22 October 2020, at 11:46. After drunkenly making a fool of himself at his Uncle Fergus' New Year's Eve party, Prentice has a talk with his father. [2] The production was nominated as Best Drama Serial at the 1997 British Academy Television Awards. This Bildungsroman is set in the fictional Argyll town of Gallanach (by its description, reminiscent of Oban but on the north east shore of Loch Crinan), the real village of Lochgair, and in Glasgow where the adult Prentice McHoan lives. After I figured out what the author was doing with the shifting in and out of generations, I really was able to enjoy piecing together information about the story. The Crow Road is a four-part television miniseries by BBC Scotland in 1996, based faithfully on the novel by Scottish novelist Iain Banks.It was directed by Gavin Millar.. Summary. His first science fiction novel, Consider Phlebas, was published in 1987. Prentice becomes obsessed with papers his uncle left behind and sets out to solve the mystery. If you are the publisher or author of this book and feel The series, which was originally created by O'Barr as a means of dealing with the death of his girlfriend at the hands of a drunk driver, was first published by Caliber Comics in 1989. Following the success of this TV serial, the same team went on to adapt Banks's Complicity as a feature film.[3]. [1], The cast includes Joseph McFadden as Prentice McHoan, Bill Paterson as his father, Dougray Scott as his older brother (another, younger brother in the novel has been written out here) and Peter Capaldi as his missing uncle Rory, who via a narrative device employed in the adaptation, visits the thoughtful Prentice when he is alone.

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