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The Bird Room
Chris Killen
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Description for The Bird Room
Paperback. 'Much of The Bird Room's appeal is down to Killen's taut, sharp prose style - not flashy but alternately laconic, melancholy and dryly witty - that gives an edgy, sometimes creepy and very contemporary sense of beauty to the everyday and the banal.' Metro Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 14. Weight in Grams: 150.
Alice is at work. Alice thinks I'm at work. I'm not at work.
I'm trying to guess the password to her email account . . .
When 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. But true love never came easy and soon devotion leads Will to something darker. The Bird Room is a candid, funny and joyous portrait of love and desire in the modern age.
Product Details
Publisher
Canongate Books
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781847672612
SKU
V9781847672612
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-49
About Chris Killen
Chris Killen was born in 1981. He currently lives in Manchester. The Bird Room is his first novel.
Reviews for The Bird Room
Those who seek something unique in the contemporary British novel will delight in this adroit, snappy debut, a dark and beguiling meditation on the weight of being . . . A novel so fresh it practically pings with energy . . . Fizzes with deadpan wit and cutting one-liners.
Independent
The Bird Room is a hall of mirrors...sparely written, cool, jaunty, darkly comic, with a sharp ear for voice and manner...it displays exuberant brio.
Guardian
Killen creates a cast of unlikeable and morally dubious characters yet still makes his book compelling. There are also flashes of linguistic brilliance which suggest greater things to come from the 27-year-old writer.
Financial Times
A darkly stylish comedy of sexual manners...Killen evokes a grimy world of sexual tension with unerring, uncomfortable accuracy...Much of The Bird Room's appeal is down to Killen's taut, sharp prose style - not flashy but alternately laconic, melancholy and dryly witty - that gives an edgy, sometimes creepy and very contemporary sense of beauty to the everyday and the banal.
Metro
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 A strangely merry look at the agony of true love.
Dazed and Confused
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 As fresh and honest a take on twenty-first century relationships as you are likely to find. I was knocked out by the cold, translucent beauty of Killen's prose.
MATT HAIG
Independent
The Bird Room is a hall of mirrors...sparely written, cool, jaunty, darkly comic, with a sharp ear for voice and manner...it displays exuberant brio.
Guardian
Killen creates a cast of unlikeable and morally dubious characters yet still makes his book compelling. There are also flashes of linguistic brilliance which suggest greater things to come from the 27-year-old writer.
Financial Times
A darkly stylish comedy of sexual manners...Killen evokes a grimy world of sexual tension with unerring, uncomfortable accuracy...Much of The Bird Room's appeal is down to Killen's taut, sharp prose style - not flashy but alternately laconic, melancholy and dryly witty - that gives an edgy, sometimes creepy and very contemporary sense of beauty to the everyday and the banal.
Metro
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 A strangely merry look at the agony of true love.
Dazed and Confused
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 As fresh and honest a take on twenty-first century relationships as you are likely to find. I was knocked out by the cold, translucent beauty of Killen's prose.
MATT HAIG