
All Quiet on the Orient Express
Reissued
Magnus Mills(Author)
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published on 16. May 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
320 pages
978-1-4088-1376-8 (ISBN)
Description
A dark, surreally funny novel from the bestselling Booker Prize-shortlisted author
'Hilariously surreal. It's a bit like the Coen Brothers directing an Alan Bennett play... Fantastic' Daily Mirror
'Understatedly surreal, deadpan gothic, Mills is a master of the uncanny ... Such a fresh fictional voice' Esquire
It is the end of the summer. The tourists have already gone, and now the sun is abandoning the Lake District's damp valleys. Only a lone camper remains, enjoying the quiet. He plans to stay just long enough to prepare for a trip to the East.
But then the owner of the campsite asks him to paint a fence and he innocently obliges. Soon other odd jobs pile up until little by little he becomes ensnared in the ominous 'out-of-season'...
'Hilariously surreal. It's a bit like the Coen Brothers directing an Alan Bennett play... Fantastic' Daily Mirror
'Understatedly surreal, deadpan gothic, Mills is a master of the uncanny ... Such a fresh fictional voice' Esquire
It is the end of the summer. The tourists have already gone, and now the sun is abandoning the Lake District's damp valleys. Only a lone camper remains, enjoying the quiet. He plans to stay just long enough to prepare for a trip to the East.
But then the owner of the campsite asks him to paint a fence and he innocently obliges. Soon other odd jobs pile up until little by little he becomes ensnared in the ominous 'out-of-season'...
Reviews / Votes
'Understatedly surreal, deadpan gothic, Mills is a master of the uncanny ... Such a fresh fictional voice' * Esquire * 'Mills is a master of the cliffhanger and can make even the most deadpan behaviour compelling and funny... A deliciously sly comic fable' * Financial Times * 'Absorbing, darkly worrying and very, very funny' * The Times * 'Mill's great strength is in mixing quiet amusing amusements with a deeper feeling of malice' * Guardian *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 196 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
230 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4088-1376-8 (9781408813768)
Schweitzer Classification
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Magnus Mills
All Quiet on the Orient Express
A 'Hilariously Surreal' Novel from the Booker Prize-Shortlisted Author
E-Book
05/2011
1st Edition
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
€12.49
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Person
Magnus Mills is the author of the story collection Screwtop Thompson and six novels, including The Restraint of Beasts, which won the McKitterick Prize and was shortlisted for both the Booker Prize and the Whitbread (now the Costa) First Novel Award in 1999. His books have been translated into twenty languages. He lives in London.