The Restraint of Beasts
Magnus Mills
#3505 of 8,085 books · #1008 in Crime & Thriller
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize (1998).
A black comedy on the British workman. It features three men who erect fences and whose minds are on their beer at the end of the day. This preoccupation makes them accident prone with unfortunate consequences for those supervising them.
- Publisher
- Flamingo
- ISBN-13
- 9781559704373
- Topics
- Black comedyWorking class lifeWorkplace mishaps
Awards
- The Booker PrizeShortlistedMajor(1998)
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