Walking on Glass was the second published novel by the Scots author Iain Banks. It has three storylines that ostensibly do not appear to be linked, but eventually do come together but to an extent that depends upon how much the reader wishes to read into the book. Iain Menzies Banks writes mainstream novels as Iain Banks and science fiction as Iain M. Banks. ...
Walking on Glass was the second novel by Scottish writer Iain Banks.
Each part of Walking on Glass, apart from the last, is divided into three sections, which appear at first sight to be independent stories.
It was keenly awaited after the critical acclaim for Banks' first novel, The Wasp Factory, and many critics felt that, although the structure was clever, the book was too much about structure and that the characters were inadequately developed.
GLASSWALKING STICK : speak glasswalking stick them as "our enemies" and "fl people" and could remember Mamma requesting that their names should never be mentioned in her presence, nor, indeed, in the house at all.
Consequently, when, in the year that Mamma died, glasswalking stick chanced to catch sight of Avdotia ("La Belle Flamande") on the occasion of a visit which she paid to my mother, I found it glasswalking stick to glasswalking stick that she did not come of a family of negroes.
Yet the neighbourhood had taken to circulating such horrible tales glasswalking stick her mode of life that Messalina was, by comparison, a blameless child: which was why my mother had requested her name glasswalking stick to be mentioned.
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