The bird room
Killen, Chris200901UU
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When a boy named Will meets Alice, he can't believe his luck. She's smart, sexy and, much to Will's surprise, in love with him. Alice brings meaning to his urban existence and his McJob. But the course of modern love did never run smooth and soon devotion leads Will to something darker. This is an explosive, sexy, daring debut from a 27 year-old British bookseller. When a boy named Will meets Alice, he can't believe his luck. She's smart, sexy and, much to Will's surprise, in love with him. Alice brings meaning to his urban existence and his McJob. But the course of modern love did never run smooth and soon devotion leads Will to something darker.Elsewhere in the city Helen is an actress. Or she will be one day. For now she finds work as a model. She used to be called Clair, but she wants to be something new and she can be anyone. She's an actress, remember.This is a love story with a twist, this explosive debut novel brings Will and Helen's lives together in a tale as tight as rope and as black as tar. "The Bird Room" is a candid, funny, intimate portrait of a generation.Review: "* 'The Bird Room is an astonishingly good first novel. I was gripped from the first page.' - M.J.HYLAND * 'An extremely engaging combo of sex, melancholy and killer one-liners - The Bird Room is a beautiful Chinese puzzle of a novel.' - TOBY LITT * 'Chris Killen's first novel is either disturbingly brilliant or brilliantly disturbing. Whichever, I loved it.' - STEVEN HALL * 'The Bird Room is amazing. Beautiful, laconic and chockablock with uneasy sex - like having a threesome with your girlfriend and Richard Brautigan.' - RICHARD MILWARD * 'Killin has taken a rough stone and polished it into a gem. A book that succeeds in turning daily banality into a thing of great beauty. I loved it.' - EWAN MORRISON".
Main title:
The bird room / Chris Killen.
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Imprint:
Edinburgh : Canongate Books Ltd : [distributor] TBS The Book Service Ltd : [distributor] United Book Distributors : [distributor] United Book Distributors : [distributor] Booksite Afrika : [distributor] Publishers' Group West, 2009.
Collation:
208 p.
Notes:
Paperback. Trade paperback (UK).
Biography/History:
Chris Killen was born in 1981. He currently lives in Manchester. The Bird Room is his first novel.
ISBN:
9781847672605 (pbk)1847672604 (pbk)
Dewey class:
AF
Local class:
F
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
784232
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