- Paperback: 192 pages
- Publisher: Pinter & Martin Ltd.; 3rd Revised edition edition (15 Sep 2008)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1905177151
- ISBN-13: 978-1905177158
- Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 12.6 x 1.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 399,581 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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John Bowden, Sunday Times
'A most lucidly written nightmare, and a pleasure to read for its prose alone... Apocalyptic. But funny with it.'
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When factory worker Pinquean Smallcreep, who has slotted a certain type of slot into a certain type of pulley for many years, packs his sandwiches and sets out on a journey to investigate what it is he is producing, his discoveries become increasingly more bizarre and disturbing. Peter Currell Brown's brilliantly surreal satire of automation and alienation is as exhilarating and unforgettable today as when it was first published.
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Any spiritually-minded person that has had experience of tedious factory work will relate to this book.
Smallcreep is slightly obsequious worker who knows his rank and place in this huge foundry gives a fascinating commentary . On a quest for the General Parts Stores as he drifts through the workshops and offices which are full of weird surreal characters and machinery you get feelings of absolute loneliness, despair and isolation. Not only is the book damning of factory life and mindless people it also attacks the hum-drum banality of everyday life, consumerism and politics. You are given the impression that the factory is actually portrayed as the tedious circle of life in which we live and Smallcreep's eventual return to his machine after the round tour demonstrates this, the last few pages scream in desperation at the despicable tedium mankind has created for himself.
It appears that this novel was one-off by the author who has obviously written from experience, the sleeve says that he gave up factory work entirely and runs his own pottery.
Smallcreep is slightly obsequious worker who knows his rank and place in this huge foundry gives a fascinating commentary . On a quest for the General Parts Stores as he drifts through the workshops and offices which are full of weird surreal characters and machinery you get feelings of absolute loneliness, despair and isolation. Not only is the book damning of factory life and mindless people it also attacks the hum-drum banality of everyday life, consumerism and politics. You are given the impression that the factory is actually portrayed as the tedious circle of life in which we live and Smallcreep's eventual return to his machine after the round tour demonstrates this, the last few pages scream in desperation at the despicable tedium mankind has created for himself.
It appears that this novel was one-off by the author who has obviously written from experience, the sleeve says that he gave up factory work entirely and runs his own pottery.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I have just re-read this novel after twenty-two years and wonder why I left it for so long.
This book is a strange and surreal commentary as factory worker Pinquean Smallcreep doing a mundane repetetive job as a machine operator attempts to discover what goes on elswhere in his place of work and getting into some very odd situations as a result. This book has a very misanthropic view on the entire structure of 1970's industrial relations, people, and life itself. The storyline would make an excellent art-house film.
This book is a strange and surreal commentary as factory worker Pinquean Smallcreep doing a mundane repetetive job as a machine operator attempts to discover what goes on elswhere in his place of work and getting into some very odd situations as a result. This book has a very misanthropic view on the entire structure of 1970's industrial relations, people, and life itself. The storyline would make an excellent art-house film.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Full marks to Pinter & Martin for republishing this long-unavailable classic. Smallcreep's surreal journey through the inside of a factory is gripping, highly imaginative, and bizarre. Brown worked in R A Lister's engineering works in Dursley when he wrote this book; at one time the factory employed over 4000 but is now much reduced. Curiously, J K Rowling named Harry Potter's boring uncle 'Dursley'. She never knew that it had already inspired Brown's 1960s masterpiece. Brown never wrote another book: he never felt he had to.
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