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The Bird Room

A Novel

Chris Killen

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Chris Killen

Chris Killen was born in 1981. He 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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“A postmodern world of troubled comic virtuality. . . . The Bird Room x-rays the souls of young people.”


- The Guardian
“Those who seek something unique . . . will delight in this adroit, snappy debut, a dark and beguiling meditation on the weight of being, conveying the notion of the trapped individual riveted to an existence that makes no sense. . . . so fresh it practically pings with energy. . . . The fragmentary make-up of The Bird Room is seamlessly woven into a perfectly formed whole that fizzes with deadpan wit and cutting one-liners. . . . The Bird Room, a novel of misguided youth, is an exciting debut from a novelist already beginning to display maturity beyond his years.”


- The Independent
"A darkly stylish black comedy of sexual manners. . . . His odd, downbeat characters engage in the kind of sex that makes you feel as if your soul needs a wash. . . . Taut, sharp prose . . . that gives an edgy, sometimes creepy, and very contemporary sense of beauty to the everyday and banal."


- Metro London
“Killen has fun playing with identities in a manner that brings to mind David Lynch’s film Mulholland Drive.”


- The Sunday Herald (UK)
"Killen creates something memorable out of his everyday ingredients. Clever time shifts keep the reader on their toes. . . . [with] darkly funny observations about contemporary urban life his spare, powerful prose brilliantly captures the loneliness of cities and the agonies of love."


- The London Paper
"Chris Killen's writing surprised me sometimes and made me think 'that is funny' sometimes and I never felt bad reading it because I knew (by reading the sentences) that he had worked hard on being sincere, concise, and interesting."


- Tao Lin, author of Eeeee Eee Eeee and Bed
“The Bird Room is amazing. Beautiful, laconic, and chockablock with uneasy sex—like having a threesome with your girlfriend and Richard Brautigan.”


- Richard Milward, author of Apples and Ten Storey Love Song
"Either disturbingly brilliant or brilliantly disturbing. Whichever, I loved it."


- Steven Hall, author of The Raw Shark Texts