The Restraint of Beasts
by:
Magnus Mills (author)
Meet Tam and Richie: two dour Scots labourers. Clad in denim, work-shy, 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.
Meet Tam and Richie: two dour Scots labourers. Clad in denim, work-shy, 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.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780002257206 (0002257203)
Pages no: 215
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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