Whit

Whit, a novel by Iain Banks, is told in the voice of Isis Whit, a young but important member of a small, quirky cult in Scotland. Like all of Banks' characters, from Frank Cauldhame in The Wasp Factory to Prentice McHoan in The Crow Road, she's a character in a half-unconscious search for knowledge which will inevitably turn her world upside down.

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Isis, otherwise The Blessed Very Reverend Gaia-Marie Isis Saraswati Minerva Mirza Whit of Luskentyre, Beloved Elect of God III, is granddaughter and spiritual heir of Salvador Whit, patriarch of the Luskentyrians, who live in a low-tech commune and reject most technology even at great inconvenience to themselves. They also run their lives according to a makeshift collection of beliefs and obsessive little rituals. The heart of the novel intercuts Isis' voyage through southern England, dealing with Rastas, policemen, racist skinheads, and other dubious characters of a sort she has never encountered, with her recitation of the official history of the cult and the rationale behind its rules.

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Novel: A novel (from French nouvelle, "new") is an extended fictional narrative in prose. Down into the 18th century, the word referred specifically to short fictions of love and intrigue as opposed to romances—epic-length works about love and adventures. Having become one of the major literary genr...

Iain Banks: Iain Menzies Banks writes mainstream novels as Iain Banks and science fiction as Iain M. Banks. He was born on February 16, 1954 in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland; the son of an officer in the Admiralty and a mother who was once a professional ice skater. Banks studied English and Philosophy at the ...

Scotland: :For other uses, see Scotland (disambiguation). See also British Isles (terminology)....

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