Easy enough to summarize, The queue is difficult to define. Picaresque encounters, recounted at speed, include bizarre scatalogical episodes and much random violence. -- Paul Binding, TLS 5653 Unsurprisingly, it was hard to find a publisher for it in 1970. Now appearing on the heels of Andrew Barrow's memoir, which borrows liberally and indeed is constructed around his late brother's novel. For him, The queue is the summation of his brother's personality and artistic gifts.