A Happy Ending For The Bridge (but it's in Complicity)

Since this place is dead at the moment I'll throw in a snippet from Raw
Spirit that I've just read. He's talking about the Cafe Royal pub in
Edinburgh. It features in Complicity where Cameron has problems with an
optical illusion caused by the way whisky bottles are placed on the drinks
gantry.

This is what he says

"The whole scene is a bit of a writer's conceit; the friend Cameron's
talking to - who's called Al, has a wife he refers to as Andi and makes just
this one appearance in the novel - is Alexander Lennox, the never directly
named central character in The Bridge; alive and well and, the implication
is, married to Andrea, the womand he loves and thinks he might have lost
during the course of the earlier novel. The idea was that Complicity, for
all it's final bleakness, does have a happy ending. It's just that it's not
it's
own happy ending and it's not at the end."

Very Banksian

BaldiePete
--
Never Knowingly On-Topic
It is an interesting experience to become acquainted with a country through
the eyes
of the insane, and if I may say so, a particularly useful grounding for life
in Britain.

WOW !

Just gone back to Complicity and read that bit again.

It even mentions that 'Al' has 'fetching scars' and is an 'engineering
consultant'. Those two are my favourite and most read non sci-fi Banks, but
I've never spotted that.

Raw Spirit is on the xmas list.

Paul




"BaldiePete" <baldiepete1961NOSPAM DeleteThis @yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:bq03ut$1si3tg$1@ID-115617.news.uni-berlin.de...
 > Since this place is dead at the moment I'll throw in a snippet from Raw
 > Spirit that I've just read. He's talking about the Cafe Royal pub in
 > Edinburgh. It features in Complicity where Cameron has problems with an
 > optical illusion caused by the way whisky bottles are placed on the drinks
 > gantry.
 >
 > This is what he says
 >
 > "The whole scene is a bit of a writer's conceit; the friend Cameron's
 > talking to - who's called Al, has a wife he refers to as Andi and makes
just
 > this one appearance in the novel - is Alexander Lennox, the never directly
 > named central character in The Bridge; alive and well and, the implication
 > is, married to Andrea, the womand he loves and thinks he might have lost
 > during the course of the earlier novel. The idea was that Complicity, for
 > all it's final bleakness, does have a happy ending. It's just that it's
not
 > it's
 > own happy ending and it's not at the end."
 >
 > Very Banksian
 >
 > BaldiePete
 > --
 > Never Knowingly On-Topic
 > It is an interesting experience to become acquainted with a country
through
 > the eyes
 > of the insane, and if I may say so, a particularly useful grounding for
life
 > in Britain.
 >
 >
 >
 >
 >


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