num_pages: 224
description: Once upon a time in Scotland, there were three men who built high-tension fences, the kind that keep animals in and humans out—or maybe the other way around. Magnus Mills gives us a wiry novel of tensile strength that proves him a writer of ferocious talent. Eerie, resonant, spare yet rich in tones both hilarious and ominous—as if a work by Irvine Welsh, or perhaps Macbeth, had been adapted by the Coen brothers—his story has a finale so ingenious, insidious, and satisfying, it remains locked in the mind long after the last wire has been strung into place.
language: English
title: The Restraint of Beasts
titlecomplete: The Restraint of Beasts
genres: 20th Century, Literature, Scotland, Literary Fiction, Novels, Comedy, Fiction, Humor, Contemporary, British Literature
ratings_count: 3338
awards: awardedAt: 883641600000
name: Booker Prize, awardedAt: 883641600000
name: James Tait Black Memorial Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 915177600000
name: McKitterick Prize
publisher: Touchstone