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After the twin evils of sloth and alcohol lead to a horribly botched job, three fence builders flee South in Magnus Mills’ surreal black comedy.Tam and Richie’s long-suffering foreman narrates Magnus Mills’ debut novel, which begins with a hapless trio of fence builders being exiled from Scotland to England after a particularly unsuccessful job. The result is a black comedy in which all hell constantly breaks loose, despite the narrator’s endless attempts to mitigate disaster."(A) witty, intricate fable about a working-class hell constructed by its own inhabitants. Mills, himself a former fence builder and bus driver, writes merciless deadpan dialogue." - Anthony Bourdain, The New York Times Book Review"As dull as this sounds, the pleasure achieved by Mills' text comes when a reader self-consciously realizes he's become riveted to a shaggy-dog story about fence-building and death, a story that will not make a lick of sense until the last sentence in the book." - David Bowman, San Francisco ChronicleMagnus Mills is the author of The Field of the Cloth of Gold and eight other novels, including The Restraint of Beasts - which won the McKitterick Prize and was shortlisted for th

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Author

Magnus Mills

Publisher

Touchstone Books

Published

1999

Language

EN

ISBN

9780684865119

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Thriller, Fiction

Rating

3.9 / 5 (1,874 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13