The Restraint of Beasts: shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize

ISBN-13: 9781408809433 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 288 str.

Magnus Mills

Opis

Written by a London bus driver, 'The Restraint of Beasts' is a queasy, spooky, murderously funny tale - with no adverbs. Tam and Richie are dour Scots labourers who, when sent to a farmsite by their boss, despatch one client after another.

Recenzje

'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

O autorze

Magnus Mills is the author of The Field of the Cloth of Gold and eight other novels, including The Restraint of Beasts, which won the McKitterick Prize and was shortlisted for both the Booker Prize and the Whitbread (now the Costa) First Novel Award in 1999. His most recent novel, The Field of the Cloth of Gold was published to great critical acclaim and was shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize 2015. His books have been translated into twenty languages. He lives in London.