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The Kills (novel)
''The Kills'' is a novel by Richard House, published in 2013. It was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 2013 Man Booker Prize, House's first nomination. Content "The Kill" is a stand-alone novel in a series of four which makes up "The Kills". Richard House created his own digital and audio content to run alongside all four parts - "Sutler", "The Massive", "The Kill", and "The Hit". The narrative deals with Stephen Lawrence Sutler on the run from mysterious forces, incorporating an Iraqi military base and a murder in Italy Reviews Reviewing "Sutler" for ''The Guardian'', Anna Baddeley wrote... ''... first set of doubts evaporated a few pages in. Sutler races along but has depth too, in its characters and filmic description of landscape...As for the enhancements … while I loved the short films of Cuba, Istanbul and Reims Cathedral that cropped up every few chapters, their effect was more to make me yearn for a holiday than add anything to the story. If you'r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard House
Richard House is an author, film maker, and artist. He was born in Cyprus. His first novel, ''Bruiser'', was short-listed for the Ferro-Grumley Gay Fiction Award in 1998. His latest novel, ''The Kills'', was longlisted for the 2013 Man Booker Prize. From 1988 to 2008, Richard was part of an art collaborative called Haha, along with Wendy Jacob, A. Laurie Palmer, and John Ploof. He graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and completed his PhD in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia in 2009. He is currently a Senior Lecturer at the University of Birmingham. Novels *2002: ''Bruiser'' *2002: ''Uninvited'' *2013: ''The Kills The Kills are an English-American rock duo formed by American singer Alison "VV" Mosshart and English guitarist Jamie "Hotel" Hince. They are signed to Domino Records. Their first four albums, '' Keep On Your Mean Side'', ''No Wow'', ''Midni ...'' References Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Schoo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Novel
A novel is a relatively long work of narrative fiction, typically written in prose and published as a book. The present English word for a long work of prose fiction derives from the for "new", "news", or "short story of something new", itself from the la, novella, a singular noun use of the neuter plural of ''novellus'', diminutive of ''novus'', meaning "new". Some novelists, including Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Ann Radcliffe, John Cowper Powys, preferred the term "romance" to describe their novels. According to Margaret Doody, the novel has "a continuous and comprehensive history of about two thousand years", with its origins in the Ancient Greek and Roman novel, in Chivalric romance, and in the tradition of the Italian renaissance novella.Margaret Anne Doody''The True Story of the Novel'' New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1996, rept. 1997, p. 1. Retrieved 25 April 2014. The ancient romance form was revived by Romanticism, especially the histori ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
