All Quiet on the Orient Express by Magnus Mills
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 . . .| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781559704953 |
| ISBN 10 | 1559704950 |
| Title | All Quiet on the Orient Express |
| Author | Magnus Mills |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Little, Brown & Company |
| Year published | 1999-09-08 |
| Number of pages | 211 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |