The Bird Room Chris Killen

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.

The bird room chris killen.

An audacious and self assured debut novel the bird room by chris killen is sometimes darkly comic sometimes painfully dramatic and always entirely engaging. 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. 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. With no exact details given minus a few physical characteristics these people can be anyone in a painful look at motivations and life.

Please feel free to give it a one star review on goodreads. Yet the bird room is a novel so fresh it. It is a love story. Killen is incredibly honest and blunt in his writing not shying away from any topic or thought.

The bird room is my first novel. 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.

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. 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. It was published by canongate in 2009.