The Restraint of Beasts

shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize

von Magnus Mills

288 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

'A heaving cauldron of black humour ... You'll never look at a stretch of high-tensile agricultural fencing in quite the same way ever again' Time Out'Extremely unusual, finely crafted and funny' Observer'Tam and I took hold of Mr McCrindle and lowered him into the hole, feet first. We decided to leave his cap on.'Fencers Tam, Richie and their ever-exasperated English foreman are forced to move from rural Scotland to England for work.After a disastrous start involving a botched fence and an accidental murder, the three move to a damp caravan in Upper Bowland and soon find themselves in direct competition with the sinister Hall Brothers whose business enterprises seem to combine fencing, butchering and sausage-making...The Restraint of Beasts introduced readers to the now much-loved unique voice of Magnus Mills and his surreally comic world.

• Themen: Belletristik Allgemein, nicht nach Genre Allgemein und literarisch
• ISBN: 9781408809433
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 02.08.2010
• Größe: 205 x 131 mm
• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC