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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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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Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. Though second-hand, the book is still in very good shape. Minimal signs of usage may include very minor creasing on the cover or on the spine.
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Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. This book is in good condition but will show signs of previous ownership. Please expect some creasing to the spine and/or minor damage to the cover. Damaged cover. The cover of is slightly damaged for instance a torn or bent corner. Grubby book may have mild dirt or some staining, mostly on the edges of pages.
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Fine. 0002257203. A trade paperback original. (There was no hardcover edition) Fine in pictorial printed wrappers. Short listed for the Booker Prize. Author's darkly comic FIRST novel.
I ordered for a Friend who was very pleased with the condition and the timeliness of delivery.
William B
May 10, 2012
Beer, Beer, Beer
When I heard Mills was a bus driver turned writer I was immediately interested. But then I discovered that wasn't the whole truth. Apparently Mills was also employed by a UK newspaper, jotted articles regularly, and was probably well steeped in various literary shenanigans.
But Mills-the-ex-bus-driver didn't let me down. The book was short, refreshing, and gripping. In (roughly) 40,000 words Mills tells us about working class life without boring or musing.
More writers should let their readers do the heavy lifting. I find that the longer a book is, the more the author adopts a condescending attitude and feels it necessary to explain the obvious.
WARNING: This book will make you want to drink a lot of beer.
Gregorio
Sep 12, 2007
There's Nothing Nietzsche Couldn't Teach Ya...
It's as though Saki (H.H. Munroe) wrote a restrained script for an old Monty Python episode. Very little actually happens in Magnus Mills? The Restraint of Beasts, but that?s precisely the point. Few writers have the ability to build such ominous tension with rain, mud, boots, fence posts, wire, and shovels as contrasted to village pub life in the U.K. The hapless protagonist elicits both sympathy and scorn in equal measure, in much the same way that a self-portrait is at once both a revelation and a lie. It?s an exceedingly quick read which will most likely have you on a quest for the rest of Mills oeuvre. That and a pint or two of bitter ale.
