Three to See the King (ARC True First Edition)

Mills, Magnus (ARC True First Edition)

ISBN 10: 0312283555 / ISBN 13: 9780312283551

Published by Picador USA, New York, New York, U.S.A., 2001

About this Item

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Three to See the King (ARC True First Edition)
• Publisher: Picador USA, New York, New York, U.S.A.
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0312283555
• ISBN 13: 9780312283551
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: Advance Reading Copy.
• Condition: Fine

About this title

Synopsis

A novel rich in comic menace from the author of The Restraint of Beasts

In 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.

About the Author

Magnus Mills is the author of The Restraint of Beasts, shortlisted for the Booker and Whitbread Prizes, All Quiet on the Orient Express, and most recently, The Scheme for Full Employment. He lives in London.