{"product_id":"2940170090556","title":"The Quarry","description":"Eighteen-year-old Kit is weird: big, strange, odd, socially disabled,  on a spectrum that stretches from \"highly gifted\" at one end, to \"nutter\" at the other. At least Kit knows who his father is; he and Guy live together in a decaying country house on the unstable brink of a  vast quarry. His mother's identity is another matter. Now, though, his father's dying, and old friends are gathering for one last time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv id=\"outer_postBodyPS\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"postBodyPS\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\"Uncle\" Paul's a media lawyer now; Rob and Ali are upwardly mobile  corporate bunnies; pretty, hopeful Pris is a single mother; Haze is  still living up to his drug-inspired name twenty years on; and fierce,  protective Hol is a gifted if acerbic critic. As young film students  they lived at Willoughtree House with Guy, and they've all come back  because they want something. Kit, too, has his own ulterior motives. Before his  father dies he wants to know who his mother is, and what's on the  mysterious tape they're all looking for. But most of all he wants to  stop time and keep his father alive.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFast-paced, gripping and savagely funny, \u003ci\u003eThe Quarry\u003c\/i\u003e  is a virtuoso performance whose soaring riffs on the inexhaustible  marvel of human perception and rage against the dying of the light will  stand among Iain Banks' greatest work.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e    \u003c\/div\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Audio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47104804913392,"sku":"2940170090556","price":24.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940170090556_p0.jpg?v=1763701857","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940170090556","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}