The Restraint of Beasts
Magnus Mills
Sold by Blackbird First Editions, Bolton, United Kingdom
AbeBooks Seller since December 22, 2016
Used - Soft cover
Condition: Used - Fine
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Add to basketSold by Blackbird First Editions, Bolton, United Kingdom
AbeBooks Seller since December 22, 2016
Condition: Used - Fine
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketUncorrected proof, Booker prize shortlisted signed by author to title page. Very slight shelfwear, otherwise Fine. A lovely tight clean copy which appears to be unread. Clear removable protective cover, includes ticket for signing event.
Seller Inventory # 000897
The team travels south to England, where they live out of a damp, cold caravan in the town of Upper Bowland. They're soon at loggerheads with the sinister Hall brothers, whose business enterprises seem to combine fencing, butchering, sausage-making, and a fierce attachment to school meals. "We committed no end of good deeds!" cries John Hall. "Yet still we lost the school dinners! Always the authorities laying down some new requirement, one thing after another! This time is seems we must provide more living space. Very well! If that's the way they want it, we'll go on building fences for ever if necessary! We'll build pens and compounds and enclosures! And we'll make sure we never lose them again!"
In between placing Kafkaesque obstacles in his narrator's path, Mills seeds his debut with small, darkly comic touches: Tam's father, whom we last see erecting a stockade round his house "to stop you from coming home any more"; the sound of Richie's Black Sabbath tapes "slowly being stretched in an under-powered cassette player"; the caravan's encroaching squalor; An Early Bath for Thompson, the book that Richie tries without success to read. No doubt about it, The Restraint of Beasts is a strange novel that only grows stranger as it progresses; with luck, it augurs more brilliant, odd work from Mills. --Mary Park
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