The Bird Room: A Novel: A Darkly Comic Debut Novel of Love, Obsession, and Cutting One-Liners - Softcover

Killen, Chris

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0061905909 ISBN 13: 9780061905902

Verlag: Harper Perennial, 2010

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Painfully average and introverted Will finally has a bird. Her name is Alice. She's smart, sexy, and much to Will's surprise, she is in love with him. But the course of love never did run smooth, and soon devotion—and its uglier manifestations—lead Will to a dark place within himself.

Elsewhere in the city, Helen is an actress—or she will be some day. For now, she finds work as a "model"—or whatever her online acquaintances need her to be. Her real name is Clair, but she desperately wants to be someone new, someone glamorous and real—someone worth something.

A love story with a twist, this exuberant and funny debut novel brings Will and Helen's lives together in a tale as tight as a rope and as black as tar. Sharp, playful, and brimming over with wicked comedy, The Bird Room heralds the arrival of a major new literary talent.

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Chris Killen is a Writing Fellow at the University of Manchester and keeps a popular blog, Day of Moustaches (dayofmoustaches.blogspot.com). He lives in Manchester, England, and The Bird Room is his first novel.

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Painfully average and introverted Will finally has a bird. Her name is Alice. She's smart, sexy, and much to Will's surprise, she is in love with him. But the course of love never did run smooth, and soon devotion—and its uglier manifestations—lead Will to a dark place within himself.

Elsewhere in the city, Helen is an actress—or she will be some day. For now, she finds work as a "model"—or whatever her online acquaintances need her to be. Her real name is Clair, but she desperately wants to be someone new, someone glamorous and real—someone worth something.

A love story with a twist, this exuberant and funny debut novel brings Will and Helen's lives together in a tale as tight as a rope and as black as tar. Sharp, playful, and brimming over with wicked comedy, The Bird Room heralds the arrival of a major new literary talent.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Harper Perennial
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0061905909
• ISBN 13: 9780061905902
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 208
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