The Restraint of Beasts
by:
Magnus Mills (author)
Tam and Rich work for a company specializing in fences built to keep beasts in and humans out. When one of their projects goes horribly wrong, they flee to London--only to discover that sometimes good fences make disastrous neighbors.
Tam and Rich work for a company specializing in fences built to keep beasts in and humans out. When one of their projects goes horribly wrong, they flee to London--only to discover that sometimes good fences make disastrous neighbors.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780684865119 (0684865114)
Publish date: October 5th 1999
Publisher: Touchstone
Pages no: 224
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Humor,
Comedy,
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Cultural,
Mystery,
Contemporary,
Crime,
Noir,
Scotland
Opening; "I'm putting you in charge of Tam and Richie," said Donald. "They can't go to England on their own."Scotland> Perthtbr bustingHole in the ground
Magnus Mills, famously still a bus driver when he published this (his first) book, has written an unusual book in which not much happens, or repetitive things happen, just building very long fences (but for what we never quite find out). The relationship between the workmen and their manager adds a ...
Another one of Mills’s books in which he creates his own eerie universe. It seems like the characters are pawns of the world they live in, the situations they get into and the choices they can’t really make themselves. And the strange thing is, I didn’t feel sorry for the guys. All these thi...
sublimely absurd and funny
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