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Dec 22, 2018
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Agricultural fencing may not seem the most promising subject for a black comedy, but this book is surprisingly funny and a very easy read.
The English narrator is working for a Scottish high-tensile fencing company, and has just been put in charge of a fencing gang whose other members are Tam and Richie, two truculent, lazy and hard drinking Scottish caricatures, one of whom is permanently in debt. Their mean and ambitious boss is another caricature. On their first job, the client farmer is accid ...more
The English narrator is working for a Scottish high-tensile fencing company, and has just been put in charge of a fencing gang whose other members are Tam and Richie, two truculent, lazy and hard drinking Scottish caricatures, one of whom is permanently in debt. Their mean and ambitious boss is another caricature. On their first job, the client farmer is accid ...more
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