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| The Bird Room (Paperback – Second-hand) |
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Full blurb:
When Will meets Alice he can’t believe his luck. She’s smart, sexy and, much to Will’s surprise, she is in love with him. Alice brings meaning to his urban existence and his boring job. But the course of modern love never did run smooth and soon devotion leads Will to something darker. Elsewhere in the city lives Helen, an actress. Or she will be, one day. A love story with a twist, this funny debut novel brings Will and Helen’s lives together. It heralds the arrival of a major new talent on the British literary scene.
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First page first lines:
‘I am not a man. I am a hat stand. I’m standing in the corner of the living room, naked. Her favourite hat hangs from my erection. It’s getting cold. I’ve been here too long. Oh God, I should start again somewhere else.’
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Category: Novel
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Author: Chris Killen
Chris Killen was born in 1981 and lives in Manchester. The Bird Room is his first novel. He blogs at Day of Moustaches.
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Publisher: Canongate
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Reviews:
‘An extremely engaging combo of sex, melancholy and killer one-liners – The Bird Room is a beautiful Chinese puzzle of a novel.’ – Toby Litt, author of King Death and Hospital.
‘The Bird Room is amazing. Beautiful, laconic and chockablock with uneasy sex – like having a threesome with your girlfriend and Richard Brautigan.’ – Richard Milward, author of Ten Storey Love Song and Apples.
‘Either disturbingly brilliant or brilliantly disturbing. Whichever, I loved it.’ – Steven Hall, author of Raw Shark Texts.
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| Book code: BTD036 |
| Price: GBP £ 2.50 |
| USD $ 4.00 |
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