All Quiet on the Orient Express
New York: Arcade Publishing, 1999. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Fine / Fine. Item #2354804
ISBN: 9781559704953
First American edition. An exceptional copy. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked.
211 pp. The second novel by Magnus Mills, a former London bus driver for nearly a dozen years. Mills has been hailed as a "comic wonder" by Thomas Pynchon. This novel was shortlisted for the Booker and Whitebread Prizes. Camping out in England's Lake District waiting for summer to end, an itinerant odd-jobber agrees to do a small painting job for the owner of the campsite, which leads to further tasks that enmesh him against his will in the complex mysteries of the placid local community.
Price: $20.00