Billionaires Banquet by Ron Butlin

Billionaires Banquet by Ron Butlin

In a fast-paced narrative spiced with genuine wit, this novel describes the billionaires banquet going on around us daily in contemporary Britain who feasts and who pays the bill. Intriguing, disturbing and hugely entertaining, Billionaires' Banquet is an immorality tale for the 21st century.

Brilliant! … a suavely compelling, ceaselessly inventive entertainment … delivered with delirious aplomb … Butlin is both a master farceur and a merciless satirist

-- Ronald Frame * Scottish Review of Books *

The language is sharp, funny and considered, and lends credence to Butlin's reputation as an author of tremendous talent.

* The List *

At the core of Billionaires’ Banquet is an entertaining knockabout comedy about the way early ambition is tempered by reality, or how noble principles inevitably give way to self-interest.

* The Herald *

Billionaires’ Banquet is, first and foremost, a hugely entertaining novel. It’s fast-paced, very funny, and with characters whose joie-de-vivre is simply irresistible. A cracking good read.

* Bookmunch *

Billionaires’ Banquet, by Ron Butlin, is a wry tale of a group of Edinburgh students living in Thatcher’s Britain. They are on the cusp of the rest of their lives, ready to move beyond their years of drink fuelled casual sex in the cold and cluttered bedrooms of cheap shared accommodation.

* neverimitate *

Butlin writes exuberantly but not without an undertone of despair. Wild comedy and satire alternate with bleak social observation. The characters are types rather than individuals. That’s not surprising; this is a novel of ideas.

* The Scotsman *

A humane view of the UK’s many economic crises? Is there such a thing? And would it make a good novel? Well, yes, the brilliant author Ron Butlin (who’s only recently come to my attention) finds a compelling and realistic way of guiding some brilliant characters through from Thatcher’s selfish individualism to today’s global power and terror.

* Nudge Magazine *

Insightful, funny, scathing, and farcical.

* Our Book Reviews *

This exceedingly original novel evokes the zeitgeist of Thatcher’s Britain with wit, humour and an exhilaratingly zesty touch.

* Lovereading *

2017 Books of the Year Billionaires' Banquet by Ron Butlin (Salt) brought back late 70s/early 80s Edinburgh in all its witty dourness, sly exuberance, hidden charms and dodgy doings, then jumps to a version of Now. It's comic, political, scathing and page-turning.

-- Andrew Greig * The Herald *

Before becoming a writer, Ron Butlin was a pop-song lyricist, a footman, barnacle-scraper on the Thames and a male model. Widely translated, his work has twice been awarded a ‘Best Foreign Novel’ prize. His previous novel, Ghost Moon, was nominated for the international IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2016. He lives in Edinburgh with his wife, the writer Regi Claire.

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ISBN 13	9781784631000
ISBN 10	1784631000
Title	Billionaires Banquet
Author	Ron Butlin
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Salt Publishing
Year published	2017-04-15
Number of pages	304
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