Magnus Mills
Autor(a) de The Restraint of Beasts
About the Author
Magnus Mills lives in London. (Publisher Provided) Magnus Mills is the author of A Cruel Bird Came to the Nest and Looked In and six other 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 mostrar mais Novel Award in 1999. His most recent novel, A Cruel Bird Came to the Nest and Looked In, was published to great critical acclaim. His books have been translated into twenty languages. His title, The Field of the Cloth of Gold, made the Goldsmiths Prize shortlist 2015. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Image credit: Magnus Mills (1954) Book cover
Obras de Magnus Mills
The Cure for Disgruntlement 3 cópias
Mistaken for Sunbathers 2 cópias
Hark the Herald (in McSweeney's 3 - EGGERS) 1 exemplar(es)
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Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1954
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- Groot-Brittannië
- Local de nascimento
- Birmingham, Engeland, Groot-Brittannië
- Locais de residência
- Birmingham, England, UK (birth)
Bristol, Gloucestershire, England, UK
London, England, UK - Educação
- Wolverhampton Polytechnic
- Ocupação
- buschauffeur
hekkenbouwer
auteur - Agente
- David Miller (Rogers, Coleridge & White)
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Resenhas
The Maintenance of Headway de Magnus Mills
Really great, quirky little book about the daily life of bus drivers, and their animating philosophies. Was a touch existential and surreal, but in a very, very gentle way.
It's like a 300-page joke with 100-page setup and 200-page punchline. You already got it, but the author goes on and on with it, without any surprises at all. It is well-written, so it will keep you entertained, there are some excellent tiny details, but the book, in general, is really obvious and predictable. It is not bad, but I can't recommend it to anyone.
As a veteran bus traveller, I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It was deadpan and absurd and at the same time felt 100% accurate, probably because Mills himself works as a bus driver. The ending was perfect. Highly recommended.
Magnus Mills writes characters who communicate within very tightly defined limits. In [b:The Restraint of Beasts|323208|The Restraint of Beasts|Magnus Mills|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1348299275l/323208._SY75_.jpg|1310862], these limits were implied through the long familiarity of two labourers; here they are the explicit rules of a club. The effect is the same: as a reader you have to really occupy the world in order to understand what's going on. This means that subtle shifts become legible and surprises are real surprises.… (mais)
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- Obras
- 18
- Also by
- 1
- Membros
- 3,057
- Popularidade
- #8,352
- Avaliação
- 3.7
- Resenhas
- 123
- ISBNs
- 138
- Idiomas
- 15
- Favorito
- 24