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About the Book

What makes life worth getting out of bed for? Mal isn't like the other kids. So remarkable is his childhood that his family wait for the incredible things he seems born to do. Then one day he goes to bed, never to get out again. Recounted by Mal's younger brother, Bed is a coming-of-age story like no other. It chronicles the metamorphosis of one extraordinary man, and explores what love, loss and family can do to you in a lifetime. Enchanting, funny, surreal and heartwarming, David Whitehouse's novel presents one of the most thrilling and unique voices to emerge from Britain in years.

About the Author :
David Whitehouse was born in 1981. His journalism has appeared in the Guardian, the Sunday Times, the Independent, Esquire, Time Out, and the Observer Magazine. His first short film, 'The Archivist', produced by Warp Films and the BBC, opened the BBC Electric Proms in 2008 and screened at film festivals including Seattle and Munich. Bed is his first novel. It was the inaugural winner of the To Hell with Prizes award in 2010.

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Hilarious and tragic; a perfectly brilliant debut. The best new novel I've read in ages. Bed is a deftly-told wonder. Mr. Whitehouse's writing is accomplished, poetic, and deeply affecting. David Whitehouse has taken what might be a gimmicky hook in a lesser writer's hands--a romance triangulating around a bedridden media spectacle, the world's most obese man--and turned it, through lapidary prose, into a soulful meditation on a fraternal love as singular as it is universal. Stunning. Masterful . . . This accomplished debut offers an offbeat insight into the lives of a family dealing with morbid obesity... [Whitehouse] maintains a tone of subtlety and grace, pulling a distinguished and accessible story out of a profoundly strange experience. Brilliant and very expressive. Mal is an extremely vivid firework of a character. Hilarious and tragic; a perfectly brilliant debut. David Whitehouse's debut novel Bed will not be published by Canongate until next month, but it is already getting impressive advance press, with Grazia magazine naming it as its "number one summer read." Coincidentally, Whitehouse is the assistant editor of heat, published by Bauer Media from an office just one floor away from Grazia. You will be up all night reading it! David Whitehouse has caught, through a debut novel that is as soulful as it is funny, the claustrophobia, tenderness, jealous resentment and horror of living under the same roof as your parents... Bed is a satisfyingly complex meditation on what it means to need and be needed . . . moving, inspired . . . left me looking forward to whatever he's going to write next. ...the talk of the town. Sad and funny and pretty brilliant, too. [Mal is] an extremely vivid firework of a character. Mal is astonishing. A totally extraordinary and original novel. A novel that is as soulful as it is funny. Highly inventive and full of compassion. Blends hilarity and tenderness perfectly. An inventive, funny take on dysfunctional families. Strikes the perfect balance between clear, page-flipping storytelling and prose festooned with fresh, richly evocative imagery. A coming-of-age story like no other . . . nchanting, funny, surreal and heart-warming, David Whitehouse's novel presents one of the most thrilling and unique voices to emerge from Britain in years. A complicated, loving, bizarre and occasionally stomach-churning story told with humour and affection. Mesmerising. Skilfully crafted ... will keep readers intrigued to the end. One of the most original and exciting novels we've read in ages. And we're not just saying that because the writer works for us. A totally extraordinary and original novel A serious contender for weirdest novel of the year so far A novel about family love... the ways it can both beat you down and hold you up... A real achievement highly inventive and full of compassion


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781847679819
  • Publisher: Canongate Books
  • Publisher Imprint: Canongate Books
  • Height: 214 mm
  • No of Pages: 304
  • Spine Width: 22 mm
  • Width: 135 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1847679811
  • Publisher Date: 02 Jun 2011
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 327 gr


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