The Steep Approach to Garbadale (repost)
The Steep Approach to Garbadale By Iain Banks
Publisher: Lit tle Bro wn and Com pany 2007 | 390 Pages | ISBN: 0316731056 | EPUB | 2 MB
Publisher: Lit tle Bro wn and Com pany 2007 | 390 Pages | ISBN: 0316731056 | EPUB | 2 MB
The latest offering from Banks (The Wasp Factory) gives a scion's-eye view of an eccentric, splintering Scottish business family. Having secured immense wealth via the Empire! board game (invented by a relative in 1880) and its various offshoots, the Wopuld family must now decide whether to sell the company: the American Spraint Corporation wants Empire! as a jewel in its crown. As the family gathers to celebrate matriarch Grandma Win's 80th birthday and have a board meeting, Win dispatches grandson Fielding to find his cousin Alban, who has fled the family to become a forester, in order to solidify her vision of the family legacy.