Title:	The restraint of beasts : a novel / Magnus Mills.
Edition:	1st Scribner pbk. ed.
Author:	Mills, Magnus, 1954-
Summary:	Building high-tension fencing with a couple of rural Scots louts--what could be a more likely premise for a black comedy? An eerie noir fable told in a grim, deadpan voice, The Restraint of Beasts tells the story of an English fence-builder promoted to foreman over two under-motivated labourers. They've just been sent out to fix a badly done fence when events go horribly awry--and not for the last time either. For the rest of the novel, as his charges drink, loaf and pound the occasional fence-post, events go badly amiss over and over again. In a sense, that's all you can truly rely on in Mills's fictional world. It is not giving away too much to say that if you hire these workers to assemble your high-tension fence, you'd best watch your back. Or your front, for that matter. And keep a firm eye on the skies, just in case.
Publisher:	New York : Scribner Paperback Fiction, 1999.
Holdings:	Items are held at the following locations: Library Call No Item Type Current Location Central Library  FICTION  Fiction  On hold for someone  South Library  FICTION  Fiction  On Loan
Subject(s) :	Fences--Design and construction--Fiction. Contract labour--England--Fiction. Young men--England--Fiction. Scots--England--Fiction. Scotland--Fiction. England--Fiction.
Description:	214 p. ; 21 cm.
ISBN:	0684865114 (pbk.) 9780684865119 (pbk.)

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