The Restraint of Beasts

Second Printing of U.S. Edition. 8vo. 214pp. Quarter-bound black cloth over red paper-covered boards, lettered in red foil to spine; black endpapers. Jacket Design by Sean McDonald with blurb by Thomas Pynchon declaring the book "a demented, deadpan-comic wonder". First casebound issue.

Signed by Author to title-page.

Author's acclaimed first book. Winner of the 1999 McKitterick Prize [administered by the Society of Authors]. Chosen as one of the Best Novels of 1998 by The Los Angeles Times. Short-listed for the 1998 Booker Prize as well as the Whitbread Prize for First Novel.

"Tam and I took hold of Mr McCrindle and lowered him into the hole, feet first. We decided to leave his cap on." Darkly humorous tale of two dour Scots labourers and their exasperated English foreman who specialize in building high-tension fences. "A British writer to be treasured." –Independent on Sunday