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About the Book

Everyday we put our lives in the hands of someone else: airline pilots with a phobia of flying; psychiatrists in need of therapy and air hostesses trying to do the right thing . So meet an apparently disparate group of people all connected to the tragic death of a stowaway in 1978. It s twenty-three years later, and despite their attempts to build new lives, the connections begin to emerge and, along with them, the truth. A truth held on blackbox recordings, answermachine tapes, sitcom outtakes, and court transcripts.

About the Author :
Nick Walker is a writer and performer with talkingbirds, a mixed media production company creating films, videos, theatre works, web projects and radio. His work has been screened on television and in cinemas, and presented to audiences from Slovakia to Seattle. He lives in Coventry. Blackbox is his first novel.

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One of the year's outstanding debuts - Time Out Genuinely original (and how often can you say that?), Blackbox is a masterpiece of loose-limbed, confident storytelling that invites more than 20 characters to your bedside to count down 800 heartbeats before tail-spinning to a dizzying conclusion that is as inevitable as it is utterly unpredictable. A mixture of flippant wit, gentle wisdom, tangible ambition and a vibrant (and apparently unhinged) imagination that skids across emotional frequencies at the touch of a dial, Nick Walker's writing is modern but not 'modern', cool but no cucumber and rubber-neck compelling from start to finish. Read this on a plane (Go on. Dare you) but make sure you read it. Secure your own oxygen mask before helping someone else. You may blow into this whistle to attract attention. Assume the crash position. Brace for impact. Brace... - Patrick Neate, author of Twelve Bar Blues and winn A clever, filmic black comedy, in 841 chapters, whose 20 characters all have some connection to the death of a Chinese stowaway. His characters are brilliant, his dialogue sparkles... and it's hilarious - Guardian Walker has put together a random bunch of characters, constructed an extraordinary set of links between them, and then thrown them into a lurid plot... He jumps backwards and forwards, uses the chapter structure to allow off-the-wall reflec


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780747268765
  • Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
  • Publisher Imprint: Headline Review
  • Height: 154 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0747268762
  • Publisher Date: 07 May 2002
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Width: 231 mm


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