The Restraint of Beasts - Brossura

Mills, Magnus

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0002257203 ISBN 13: 9780002257206

Casa editrice: Flamingo, 1998

Riassunto

A queasy, spooky, murderously funny tale from the driver of the number 18 bus...

· What do you do when you’re asked to supervise the unsupervisable? You go along with it, of course...
· Meet Tam and Richie: two dour Scots labourers. Clad in denim, workshy, permanently discontented, intent on getting to the pub every night come hell or high water – in short, akin to your average British workers. But Tam and Richie, with their new supervisor, begin to display hidden depths.
· Despatched to a farmsite on the Hereford-Powys border by their building contractor bosses, they in turn despatch first one client then another, all the while sticking unbendingly to their rituals until comeuppance comes to herd them away.
· What fresh hell is this they inhabit?

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Recensione:

‘A demented, deadpan comic wonder, this rude salute to the dark side of contract employment has the exuberant power of a magic word it might possibly be dangerous (like the title of a certain other Scottish tale) to speak out loud.’
Thomas Pynchon

L'autore:

Magnus Mills has had more jobs than you’ve had hot dinners. Lately, pretty much by accident, his writing skills were brought to the attention of the Independent newspaper, where he wrote about Life on the Buses for a year or so; then, he decided to write a novel. He still drives the 18 bus and other routes, and operates out of Brixton depot.

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• Editore: Flamingo
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0002257203
• ISBN 13: 9780002257206
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 224