- Paperback: 208 pages
- Publisher: Portobello Books Ltd (15 Sep 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1846270006
- ISBN-13: 978-1846270000
- Product Dimensions: 20.4 x 14.6 x 1.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 199,064 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Portobello's first novelist is an exciting English debutant, Glen Neath, who in person looks like a spare guitarist from the Kings of Leon and on the page sounds like a mash-up of Magnus Mills, Franz Kafka and Paul Auster. His THE OUTGOING MAN, a disarming, unsettling fable of unspecified threat and comic unease, featuring an Outgoing Man briefing an Incoming Man at his point of entry into a murky organization, has all the freshness and pop of the genuinely original, and is largely beyond paraphrase. Its characters inhabit a place rich in the usual office rivalries, romances and resentments, but never can the reader be sure exactly what it is that the organization organizes or produces...It is a dark, itchy and, now and then, laugh-out-loud funny tale. Neath will surely go far, and come back again.
About the Author
GLEN NEATH was born in Sheffield in 1965. He has been a painter, nightclub-manager, magazine editor and playwright. This is his first book.
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Neath is an engagingly original and innovative writer. The Outgoing Man is clever without being pretentious, erudite without being flashy, and a triumph of modern story telling
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After a mere 53 pages into this 202 page book I gave up! Complete uninteresting waffle. I like Magnus Mills very much but this is nothing like his stuff. I don't normally give up on books but this was sending me to sleep. Could someone enlighten me to something I'm missing possibly? hmmm....
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I read this after seeing it recommended by Magnus Mills, but did not enjoy it very much. In comparison to Mills it lacked wit and invention.
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