Three to See the King
by:
Magnus Mills (author)
A novel rich in comic menace from the author of The Restraint of BeastsIn a setting Samuel Beckett might have found homey lives a man in a house made of tin. He is content. The tin house is well constructed and located miles from the tin houses of his nearest neighbors. Though he seems to have...
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A novel rich in comic menace from the author of The Restraint of BeastsIn a setting Samuel Beckett might have found homey lives a man in a house made of tin. He is content. The tin house is well constructed and located miles from the tin houses of his nearest neighbors. Though he seems to have escaped society, however, society finds him. One day, a woman arrives and moves in. Soon a neighbor comes to visit, and then another. Soon, moving figures silhouette the horizon. People dismantling their tin houses and setting off to find a master builder with a revolutionary message. The gravitational pull cannot be resisted.Nor can this novel. Part mystery, part parable, Three to See the King stalks the reader’s imagination and grows inexorably and irresistibly in the telling.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780312283551 (0312283555)
Publish date: December 7th 2001
Publisher: Picador
Pages no: 176
Edition language: English
This little book is big in his story. Mills has made a strange but believable world with subtle but interesting characters. Although the moral of the story becomes very apparent throughout the book, and therefore the ending became clear while reading, it didn’t bother me that much. I hop...