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All Quiet on the Orient Express

by Magnus Mills
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A dark, surreally funny novel from the bestselling Booker Prize-shortlisted author

'Hilariously surreal. It's a bit like the Coen Brothers directing an Alan Bennett play... Fantastic' Daily Mirror
'Understatedly surreal, deadpan gothic, Mills is a master of the uncanny ... Such a fresh fictional voice' Esquire
It is the end of the summer. The tourists have already gone, and now the sun is abandoning the Lake District's damp valleys. Only a lone camper remains, enjoying the quiet. He plans to stay just long enough to prepare for a trip to the East.
But then the owner of the campsite asks him to paint a fence and he innocently obliges. Soon other odd jobs pile up until little by little he becomes ensnared in the ominous 'out-of-season'...
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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

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  • ISBN: 9781408822807
  • Release date: May 16, 2011

EPUB ebook

  • ISBN: 9781408822807
  • File size: 446 KB
  • Release date: May 16, 2011
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subjects

Fiction Literature

Languages

English

Levels

Lexile® Measure:840
Text Difficulty:4-5

A dark, surreally funny novel from the bestselling Booker Prize-shortlisted author

'Hilariously surreal. It's a bit like the Coen Brothers directing an Alan Bennett play... Fantastic' Daily Mirror
'Understatedly surreal, deadpan gothic, Mills is a master of the uncanny ... Such a fresh fictional voice' Esquire
It is the end of the summer. The tourists have already gone, and now the sun is abandoning the Lake District's damp valleys. Only a lone camper remains, enjoying the quiet. He plans to stay just long enough to prepare for a trip to the East.
But then the owner of the campsite asks him to paint a fence and he innocently obliges. Soon other odd jobs pile up until little by little he becomes ensnared in the ominous 'out-of-season'...
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Fiction Literature
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