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ALL QUIET ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS
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| By: |
Magnus Mills |
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Paperback |
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£11.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1611458110 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781611458114 |
| Publisher: |
SKYHORSE PUBLISHING |
| Pub. date: |
9 May, 2013 |
| Description: |
In preparation for a trip to India, a young man in Britain goes camping. Offered free board at a camping ground in exchange for odd jobs, he becomes involved in local life and never makes it to India. A witty look at the power of habit by a former London bus driver, author of The Restraint of Beasts. |
| Synopsis: |
Magnus Mills's first novel, The Restraint of Beasts, was hailed by Thomas Pynchon as a "comic wonder." His second novel, All Quiet on the Orient Express, is an equally edgy blend of high-grade comedy and low-grade paranoia. With insidiously beguiling deadpan charm, Mills draws us again into the world of contract employment, this time in England's Lake District. The novel's narrator, an itinerant odd-jobber, is camping out, waiting for summer to end so that he can set off for some vague notion of the East . . . Turkey, Persia, overland to India. In the meantime, he agrees to do a small painting job for the owner of his campsite. One job leads to another. Before long, our hero is hopelessly and hilariously enmeshed in the off-season mysteries of the placid northern English community, grappling with dark forces beyond his power--some of which hang out at the local pub. To think it all began with a simple paint job . . . |
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US |
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Skyhorse Publishing |
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Non-returnable |
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