The Bird Room Chris Killen

Killen is incredibly honest and blunt in his writing not shying away from any topic or thought.

The bird room chris killen.

Please feel free to give it a one star review on goodreads. 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 is written in a style that is understated which gives it a poetic quality that can t be brought about with more elaborate prose. It is a love story.

An audacious and self assured debut novel the bird room by chris killen is sometimes darkly comic sometimes painfully dramatic and always entirely engaging. 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. 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. Sort of like peep show meets david lynch or something.

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. 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. It was published by canongate in 2009.

With no exact details given minus a few physical characteristics these people can be anyone in a painful look at motivations and life. It s a black comedy mostly and has a lot of awkward sex stuff in it. The bird room is my first novel. As chris killen s first novel the bird room is a strange and interesting look at the lives of four people.