The Flood [Hardcover]

Ian Rankin (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1986

Mary Miller is an outcast, believed by some to have occult powers, and is the mother of a bastard son, Sandy. Mary finds herself caught up in a faltering affair with a local schoolteacher while Sandy falls in love with a strange gypsy girl. As the action moves towards a tense and unexpected climax, both mother and son are forced to come to terms with the past, in the growing knowledge that their small dramas are being played out against a much larger canvas, a drama glimpsed only in symbols and flickering images - of decay and regrowth, of fire and water - of the flood.

--This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition.

Editorial Reviews

Review

'A must for lovers of Rankin' GOOD BOOK GUIDE 'Full of secrets and revelations, with an atmospheric sense of time and place, it has Rankin's signature darkness' CHOICE 'It wouldn't take a Rebus to sleuth out the telltale signs of a talent in the making' -- Chris Power THE TIMES --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

About the Author

Born in the Kingdom of Fife in 1960, Ian Rankin graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 1982, and then spent three years writing novels when he was supposed to be working towards a PhD in Scottish Literature. His first Rebus novel was published in 1987, and the Rebus books are now translated into twenty-two languages and are bestsellers on several continents. Fife born Donald was most recently seen on television in the BBC Scotland series RIVER CITY playing Callum and in SPOOKS -BBC TV as PC Steven Bowyers. Theatre includes ANTIGONE at the Old Vic, MYTHS OF THE NEAR FUTURE at the Tramway, Glasgow, MACBETH at the StephenJoseph Theatre and Everyman, Liverpool and THE CURE AT TROY at Battersea Arts Centre, ROMEO & JULIET, TWELFTH NIGHT at Shakespeare in the Botanics, Glasgow. --This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 190 pages
• Publisher: P D Meany Pub; First Edition edition (March 1986)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 094827509X
• ISBN-13: 978-0948275098
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.6 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,316,750 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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