The bird room is my first novel.
The bird room chris killen.
With no exact details given minus a few physical characteristics these people can be anyone in a painful look at motivations and life.
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.
Killen is incredibly honest and blunt in his writing not shying away from any topic or thought.
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.
It was published by canongate in 2009.
Please feel free to give it a one star review on goodreads.
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.
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.
It s a black comedy mostly and has a lot of awkward sex stuff in it.
Yet the bird room is a novel so fresh it.
As chris killen s first novel the bird room is a strange and interesting look at the lives of four people.
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.
An audacious and self assured debut novel the bird room by chris killen is sometimes darkly comic sometimes painfully dramatic and always entirely engaging.