The Bird Room Chris Killen

As chris killen s first novel the bird room is a strange and interesting look at the lives of four people.

The bird room chris killen. It was published by canongate in 2009. It is a love story. 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. 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. Please feel free to give it a one star review on goodreads. The bird room is my first novel. Yet the bird room is a novel so fresh it.

It s a black comedy mostly and has a lot of awkward sex stuff in it. With no exact details given minus a few physical characteristics these people can be anyone in a painful look at motivations and life. As chris killen s first novel the bird room is a strange and interesting look at the lives of four people. Killen is incredibly honest and blunt in his writing not shying away from any topic or thought.

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