The Bird Room Chris Killen

It s a black comedy mostly and has a lot of awkward sex stuff in it.

The bird room chris killen.

Killen is incredibly honest and blunt in his writing not shying away from any topic or thought. Sort of like peep show meets david lynch or something. Reminiscent of other up and coming authors such as tao lin richard milward and toby litt and with a spare and efficient style that belies the intricacies of the novel s double narrative the bird room is a dark edgy tale of sex love and obsession. With no exact details given minus a few physical characteristics these people can be anyone in a painful look at motivations and life.

Killen is incredibly honest and blunt in his writing not shying away from any topic or thought. The bird room is my first novel. An audacious and self assured debut novel the bird room by chris killen is sometimes darkly comic sometimes painfully dramatic and always entirely engaging. As chris killen s first novel the bird room is a strange and interesting look at the lives of four people.

An audacious and self assured debut novel the bird room by chris killen is sometimes darkly comic sometimes painfully dramatic and always entirely engaging. Please feel free to give it a one star review on goodreads. That s m i read the bird room in two hours and thirty two minutes on a national express coach on my way to a holiday. Reminiscent of other up and coming authors such as tao lin richard milward and toby litt and with a spare and efficient style that belies the intricacies of the novel s double narrative the bird room is a dark edgy tale of sex love and obsession.

Yet the bird room is a novel so fresh it. It was published by canongate in 2009. The bird room is written in a style that is understated which gives it a poetic quality that can t be brought about with more elaborate prose. No more than 26 pages into chris killen s debut novel its narrator reconciles himself to the fact that things aren t going to get much better.