He said Mr Ege fell to his knees with a loud bang and started crying, calling out his son's name.

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"Some books go off with a loud bang when they first appear but many others do not, " said Mr Kidd, who is managing director of literary agency Aitken Alexander Associates.

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Fat Land has taken off with a loud bang that just keeps on repeating, which makes it sound like what happens to you after eating at McDonald's but really says something about the world that Fat Land both reflects and provokes.

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There is a sudden, blinding flash and a loud bang with the sound of breaking glass, at which point the recording stops.

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His first stone missed by several feet, but he struck home with the second, making a loud hollow bang and leaving the sign quivering in the wind.

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