A Song of Stone

8vo. Pp. [vi], 280, [2 (blank)]. Black cloth boards, lettered in silver to spine. Jacket illustration by Peter Brown (priced £16.99 on front flap). Black endpapers with a repeat of the cover motif to the beginning of each chapter. Originally published in 1997, and reprinted six times within the year, this eighth printing was issued the subsequent year.

Signed by Author to title-page. Hint of tanning to page edges, else Fine.

Author's ninth 'non-SF' novel. Reminiscent of the death throes undergone by the former Yugoslavia, a novel set in the aftermath of a war, when armed gangs roam a lawless land. A frightening illustration of what happens when societal norms break down. "[A] remarkable, and memorable, book... Banks manages to explore the human condition in desperate times, still varied and perplexing as ever, ranging from the absurd to the sinister, the tragic, the sublime." –Locus (August 1997)