All Quiet on the Orient Express: A Novel - Softcover

Mills, Magnus

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1611458110 ISBN 13: 9781611458114

Publisher: Arcade Publishing, 2013

Synopsis

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 . . .

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Review:

A rollicking success.

Sweetly fiendish . . . Not since Kafka has an author lured his audiences so innocently, so beguilingly, into hell.

Mills is a skillful deadpan raconteur.

Millsis a skillful deadpan raconteur.

About this edition

• Publisher: Arcade Publishing
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1611458110
• ISBN 13: 9781611458114
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224