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The Bridge

By: Iain Banks
Narrated by: Peter Kenny
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A man lies in a coma after a near-fatal accident. His body broken, his memory vanished, he finds himself in the surreal world of the bridge - a world free of the usual constraints of time and space, a world where dream and fantasy, past and future, fuse. Who is this man? Where is he? Is he more dead than alive? Or has he never been so alive before?

©1986 Iain Banks (P)2013 Hachette Audio Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Psychological Science Fiction Fiction Time Travel

Critic Reviews

"An exceptional talent... a totally absorbing read" ( The Times)
"A stunning book. Banks' powerful imagination is joined to a rare ability to be truly funny while exploring a nightmare world" ( Sunday Times)
"Banks turns inward to explore the complex, surreal microcosm of the human mind in a kaleidoscopic novel for sophisticated, literary readers of speculative fiction. Recommended." ( Library Journal)
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I’ve loved this book from the first of the many times I’ve read it, and this recording does full justice to Iain Banks’s work. Having a gifted narrator read it for me was a real treat and I’m already lining up some of my other favourites of Iain’s writing in my Wishlist. I can’t recommend it too highly: if you’re new to Iain Banks, this is a great place to start. Apparently it was the book of which he was most proud and I’ve always considered it to be his finest.

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