Beggars Banquet
Editorial ORION FICTION
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Mainland Spain
- Publisher ORION FICTION
- ISBN13 9781409102373
- ISBN10 1409102378
- Type BOOK
- Pages 384
- Published 2008
- Language English
- Bookbinding Paperback
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ThrillerBeggars Banquet
Editorial ORION FICTION
Do you want to pick it up at the bookstore?
Mainland Spain
Book details
Beggars Banquet is something of a departure for Ian Rankin and a very welcome one. Over the years, Rankin has built up an imposing portfolio of short stories. Appearing in crime magazines, written for personal appearances, or as one-off radio specials, they all resound with the singular energy and idiosyncratic characterisation of his best full-length novels. A previous collection, A Good Hanging, combined some first-rate tales with more workaday material, but this time round there isn't a single weak link, and the range of stories here is astonishing; this is a panoply of Rankin's approach to crime and mystery writing, and is that rare thing in short story collections: a book in which the tales can be read one after the other with ever-increasing pleasure.