Book description
The third book in the Squire Quartet, available for the first time as
an ebook.
Russian born Dominic is one of the success stories of the eighties,
when yuppies made fortunes on the stock market .
Ray Tebbutt is among the unlucky ones. He was involved in a bankruptcy
in the mid-eighties .
Peter Petrik, a dissident Czech film director, lives in Prague,
dreaming of making more films when times improve .
The lifelines of these people and others - comic and sad by turns in
true Aldiss fashion - converge towards the finality of an IRA bomb
epuisode in Great Yarmouth. 'Aldiss delivers his storylines with joie
de vivre, his dialogue is impeccable, and his narrative is glazed with
customary wit.' DAILY TELEGRAPH
'A crisply philosophical novel on the the topic of disaster.' DAILY
EXPRESS Brian Aldiss, OBE, is a fiction and science fiction writer,
poet, playwright, critic, memoirist and artist. He was born in Norfolk
in 1925. After leaving the army, Aldiss worked as a bookseller, which
provided the setting for his first book, The Brightfount Diaries (1955).
His first published science fiction work was the story 'Criminal
Record', which appeared in Science Fantasy in 1954. Since then he has
written nearly 100 books and over 300 short stories.
