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All Quiet on the Orient Express: A Novel

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All Quiet on the Orient Express: A Novel

Magnus Millsâ€™s first novel, The Restraint of Beasts, was hailed by Thomas Pynchon as a â€œcomic wonder.â€ 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 Englandâ€™s Lake District. The novelâ€™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 powerâ€”some of which hang out at the local pub. To think it all began with a simple paint job . . .
Country USA
Brand Arcade
Manufacturer Arcade
Binding Paperback
ReleaseDate 2013-05-09
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781611458114

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