All Quiet on the Orient Express

Mills, Magnus

ISBN 10: 0002259060 / ISBN 13: 9780002259064

Verlag: Arcade Publishing, 1999

Beschreibung

Befriedigend/Good: Durchschnittlich erhaltenes Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit Gebrauchsspuren, aber vollständigen Seiten. / Describes the average WORN book or dust jacket that has all the pages present.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers M00002259060-G

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: All Quiet on the Orient Express
• Verlag: Arcade Publishing
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1999
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0002259060
• ISBN-13: 9780002259064
• Einband: Softcover
• Zustand: good

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Inhaltsangabe

Innocence, experience and comedy in Cumbria.

He’s a bit of a handyman. Or, at least, so Mr Parker seems to think. No matter, he’ll soon be on that train east to India from these wet lakeland fells. Just as soon as he’s finished that little job Mr Parker asked him to do.

It wasn’t much of a holiday anyway. As the tourists trickled away from the campsite, so did the sunshine, and the hot water, and the provisions at the local shop, and even the good beer. Still, there seemed to be plenty of work to take his mind off these minor disappintments – as much as he cared to do, in fact, even homework. And payment could be discussed later. Meanwhile, he was really beginning to fit in, to become one of the local fixtures, down the pub, on the farm, on the lake. Maybe that trip east could wait?

In this cautionary tale of labour and capital, of innocence and experience, Magnus Mills takes us back to the kind of terrain he patrolled so notably in The Restraint of Beasts – rural circuits where neither cash nor unemployment are much prized – and makes it conclusively his own turf.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

magnus mills is the author of one previous novel, The Restraint of Beasts.