Magnus Mills

The Maintenance of Headway

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'It's a matter of procedure,' I explained. 'Strictly for the record. You don't get sacked from this job unless you did what Thompson did.' 'What did he do then?' 'We never mention it.'Enter the bizarre world of the bus driver, a strange but all too familiar universe in which 'the timetable' and 'the maintenance of headway' are sacred, but where the routes can change with the click of an inspector's fingers. This brilliant short novel is a gently absurd examination of the British bus system and its peculiarities, where the demands of the hapless passengers are virtually ignored and where it is fine to be a little bit late but utterly unforgiva… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-4088-0353-0
EAN: 9781408803530
Produktnummer: 14003230
Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
Seitenangabe: 144 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 849 KB
Auflage: 1. Auflage

Über den Autor

Magnus Mills is the author of The Field of the Cloth of Gold and eight other novels, including The Restraint of Beasts, which won the McKitterick Prize and was shortlisted for both the Booker Prize and the Whitbread (now the Costa) First Novel Award in 1999. His most recent novel, The Field of the Cloth of Gold was published to great critical acclaim and was shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize 2015. His books have been translated into twenty languages. He lives in London.