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Author | : Magnus Mills |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 161 |
Release | : 2015-05-19 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1632860376 |
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From the Booker-shortlisted author acclaimed as having "no literary precedent" (Independent) comes a gently absurd examination of the systems that trap and frustrate us daily. Fans of dry humor will enjoy this tale of mishap and folly, told from the point of view of a bus driver who's been charged to maintain a precise distance between himself and other buses--a directive that leads him to ignore the very passengers he's meant to serve. Witty, allegorical, and intelligent, this is a novel for all those who have ever run for a bus, only to have it pull away as they reach its doors. Showcasing all of Mills' strengths, it is the perfect reintroduction for American readers to an incomparable talent.
Author | : Magnus Mills |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 2011-09-05 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1408825309 |
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The brilliant new novel by the author of The Restraint of Beasts
Author | : Magnus Mills |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2011-09-05 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1408821206 |
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'He has no literary precedent, and he also appears to have no imitators. He mines a seam that no one else touches on, every sentence in every book having a Magnus Mills ring to it that no other writer could produce' Independent
Author | : Magnus Mills |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 178 |
Release | : 2002-12-06 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780312306106 |
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A novel rich in comic menace from the author of The Restraint of Beasts In a setting Samuel Beckett might have found homey lives a man in a house made of tin. He is content. The tin house is well constructed and located miles from the tin houses of his nearest neighbors. Though he seems to have escaped society, however, society finds him. One day, a woman arrives and moves in. Soon a neighbor comes to visit, and then another. Soon, moving figures silhouette the horizon. People dismantling their tin houses and setting off to find a master builder with a revolutionary message. The gravitational pull cannot be resisted. Nor can this novel. Part mystery, part parable, Three to See the King stalks the reader’s imagination and grows inexorably and irresistibly in the telling.
Author | : Magnus Mills |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 2011-05-16 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1408822822 |
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'A heaving cauldron of black humour ... You'll never look at a stretch of high-tensile agricultural fencing in quite the same way ever again' Time Out 'Extremely unusual, finely crafted and funny' Observer 'Tam and I took hold of Mr McCrindle and lowered him into the hole, feet first. We decided to leave his cap on.' Fencers Tam, Richie and their ever-exasperated English foreman are forced to move from rural Scotland to England for work. After a disastrous start involving a botched fence and an accidental murder, the three move to a damp caravan in Upper Bowland and soon find themselves in direct competition with the sinister Hall Brothers whose business enterprises seem to combine fencing, butchering and sausage-making... The Restraint of Beasts introduced readers to the now much-loved unique voice of Magnus Mills and his surreally comic world.
Author | : Bob Herbert |
Publisher | : Anchor |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2015-07-07 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0767930843 |
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From longtime New York Times columnist Bob Herbert comes a wrenching portrayal of ordinary Americans struggling for survival in a nation that has lost its way In his eighteen years as an opinion columnist for The New York Times, Herbert championed the working poor and the middle class. After filing his last column in 2011, he set off on a journey across the country to report on Americans who were being left behind in an economy that has never fully recovered from the Great Recession. The portraits of those he encountered fuel his new book, Losing Our Way. Herbert’s combination of heartrending reporting and keen political analysis is the purest expression since the Occupy movement of the plight of the 99 percent. The individuals and families who are paying the price of America’s bad choices in recent decades form the book’s emotional center: an exhausted high school student in Brooklyn who works the overnight shift in a factory at minimum wage to help pay her family’s rent; a twenty-four-year-old soldier from Peachtree City, Georgia, who loses both legs in a misguided, mismanaged, seemingly endless war; a young woman, only recently engaged, who suffers devastating injuries in a tragic bridge collapse in Minneapolis; and a group of parents in Pittsburgh who courageously fight back against the politicians who decimated funding for their children’s schools. Herbert reminds us of a time in America when unemployment was low, wages and profits were high, and the nation’s wealth, by current standards, was distributed much more equitably. Today, the gap between the wealthy and everyone else has widened dramatically, the nation’s physical plant is crumbling, and the inability to find decent work is a plague on a generation. Herbert traces where we went wrong and spotlights the drastic and dangerous shift of political power from ordinary Americans to the corporate and financial elite. Hope for America, he argues, lies in a concerted push to redress that political imbalance. Searing and unforgettable, Losing Our Way ultimately inspires with its faith in ordinary citizens to take back their true political power and reclaim the American dream.
Author | : Elisabeth Brink |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 2007-06 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780618871933 |
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Harvard Divinity School student Gillian Cormier-Brandenburg takes a job at a halfway house when her fellowship is revoked. Her encounters with the residents cause her to rethink her own goals.
Author | : Magnus Mills |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 177 |
Release | : 2011-05-16 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1408822814 |
Download The Scheme for Full Employment Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
'A unique talent ... Mills's novels are among the best and most original in recent English fiction' Literary Review 'An enjoyable novel by a truly original writer' Sunday Times The Scheme was designed to provide an honest wage for an honest day's labour. Men driving identical, rust-resistant Univans deliver Univan parts to strategically spaced warehouses. Simple, self-perpetuating and efficient, it seems destined to last forever. But when some drivers begin leaving early and developing delivery sidelines, the workforce is divided into two camps: Flat-Dayers and Early Swervers. As tensions mount, the whole system threatens to fall apart...
Author | : Tom Limoncelli |
Publisher | : "O'Reilly Media, Inc." |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0596007833 |
Download Time Management for System Administrators Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Provides advice for system administrators on time management, covering such topics as keeping an effective calendar, eliminating time wasters, setting priorities, automating processes, and managing interruptions.
Author | : Geoff Ryman |
Publisher | : HarperPerennial |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : City and town life |
ISBN | : |
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A Bakerline tube carriage has 36 seats. An ideally filled tube train with no-one standing would carry 252 passengers. The driver makes 253. Each has their own personal history, their own thoughts about themselves and their fellow passengers.