The Bricks that Built the Houses de Kae Tempest

The Bricks that Built the Houses

Kae Tempest

THESUNDAY TIMESBESTSELLERWINNER OF THE BOOKS ARE MY BAGBREAKTHROUGH AUTHORAWARDKae Tempest'scritically acclaimed debut novel, the literary companion to their Mercury-Prize nominated albumEverybody Down, takes us into the beating heart of the capital in thismulti-generational tale of drugs, desire and belongingYoung Londoners Becky, Harry and Leon are leaving town in a fourth-hand Ford Cortina with a suitcase full of money. They are running from jealous boyfriends, dead-end jobs, violent maniacs and disgruntled drug dealers, in the hope of escaping the restless tedium of life in south-east London - the place they have always called home.*This book has been printed with two different cover designs. We are unable to accept requests for a specific cover. The different covers will be assigned to orders at random*

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Kae Tempest is rapidly becoming one of the most exciting and distinctive voices of their generation. They have won the Ted Hughes Prize for innovation in poetry and was recently selected as a Next Generation Poet by the Poetry Society. Both their debut and second albums were nominated for the Barclaycard Mercury Music Prize

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Kae Tempest is a poet. They are also a writer, a lyricist, a performer and a recording artist. They have published plays, poems, a novel, a book length non-fiction essay, released albums and toured extensively, selling out shows from Reykjavik to Rio de Janeiro. They received Mercury Music Prize nominations for both of the albums Everybody Down and Let Them Eat Chaos and two Ivor Novello nominations for their song-writing on The Book of Traps and Lessons. They were named a Next Generation Poet in 2014, a once in a decade accolade. They received the Ted Hughes Award for their longform narrative poem Brand New Ancients and the Leone D'Argento at the Venice Teatro Biennale for their work as a playwright. Their books have been translated into eleven languages and published to critical acclaim around the world. They were born in London in 1985 where they still live. They hope to continue putting words together for a long time.kaetempest.co.uk@kaetempest

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Tempest gets at foundations: If families are houses, then each family member is a cracked brick . This might be Tempest's first novel, but it's also poetry. By artfully intertwining the stories of people who are broken by the city they love,The Bricks That Built the Housescreates a complex narrative thatrarely faltersand eventually coheres intoa strong and lyrical whole
Soaring . Tempest's flair for language is tempered by [their] sense of rhythm and pace . Deeply affecting: cinematic in scope; touching in its empathic humanity . Tempest's voice - by turns raging and tender - never falters
This is a bold, bright, beguiling novel; a lustrous pageant that dazzles and grips . An irresistible, immersive snapshot of a changing world, delivered in woozy, staccato sentences . There's great pleasure to be taken from Tempest's debut . [They] may well be unstoppable
One of the leading wordsmiths of our time . [They] turn [their] raw, observational skills in book form to the urban young growing up poor - sex, drugs and increasing poverty amid the looming threat of gentrification
It's hard not to be blown away by Tempest . A stirring, post-Dickensian lens trained on London's lonely underbelly
This book is almost everything I hoped it would be. That is praise indeed, as I had high hopes ... As lyrical as it is gritty, and as devoted to (south-east) London as it is to humanity, with all its foibles
Tempest has a knack for the devastating throwaway line - a skill-honed, no doubt, from years of rapping and spoken-word performances. [Their] work is rich with underlinable lines . Captivating
Everything Tempest does comes from the same gnawing desire to tell stories and change the world ... The book covers come-ups, comedowns, gender identity, parents torn apart by activism and the brutal, beautiful face of survival against the odds ... Blistering ****
Explosive . Fresh and vivid visions of a familiar world . It recalls two other great, recent, experimental novels about being young: Jon McGregor's If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things and Eimear McBride's A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing. There's the same sense of daring and linguistic inventiveness, the same feeling of language pushed to its limits . It fairly flies off the page
A story of accidental adventure and loss in what feels like London's boiling crucible of race, class and sexuality . This novel requires giving oneself over to its linguistic world . It seems not just to describe a contemporary world but chart the migratory and class movements that has led it to its current state
Angst-ridden lyricism captures the energy and loneliness of London life in this dizzying, genre-busting debut ... A remarkable piece of writing, filled with verbal echoes and half-rhymes ... [One reads] for the pinpoint evocation of a milieu, its texture and contours, all delivered with an intensely gathered and focused energy ... Transformative
The passion, pace and pulsing narrative of [their] novel is like an extended Arctic Monkeys track . London emerges as the beating heart, a melting pot of race, class, sexuality and drugs. Tempest is a clearly talented writer with a distinctive and engaging voice . Passionate and political
Tempest is a worthy champion for a generation of disillusioned youth . [Their] lyrical talent comes through
Tempest's words really soar from the grime of London . Smart, lyrical observations of city life won me over . Tempest proves [their] witty, unique take on the world ****
Tempest is brilliant at capturing a distinctly contemporary state of mind, one hollowed out by drugs, ennui and too many late nights, but also one bursting with frustrated feeling and desire. [They] have a poetic sensibility that feels physically hewn from London's unloved corners ... [Their] writing has a startling, unmediated freshness reminiscent of Jack Kerouac ... Full of beauty
[Their] characters sing . This is yet another impressive achievement for Tempest, and one which leaves this Generation Xer understanding the woes of millennials much better
A novel of discontentment, rage and good intentions . Tempest sharpens [their] tongue to good effect
A startling debut novel . The call-to-arms urgency with which Tempest writes about the issues affecting [their] generation - from social prejudice and unemployment to modern love and selfies - has earned [their] comparisons to the Beat poets
A whirlwind journey through modern city life ... You'll be gripped from start to finish
There's plenty of inspiration and perspiration in the literary world, but Tempest's sense of urgency is rare ... Tempest does come across as an enemy of beige prose . [They] depict their interior worlds as roiling; the intensity of their inner lives explodes on the page
Tempest portrays the lives of generations of Londoners with an unflinching but sympathetic eye
A lager-stained, rain-soaked love letter to London . Flows like a prose poem about drugs, dual carriageways and desire
A novel about youth and drugs and desire and dancers . It's also about the changing face of the capital city. About gentrification and its costs
Tempest has a gift for making you feel you're walking on the edge of something: between text and sound, or between a great night and the worst one . Many bursts of lyrical prose, heavy and kaleidoscopic

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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE BOOKS ARE MY BAG BREAKTHROUGH AUTHOR AWARDKae Tempest's critically acclaimed debut novel, the literary companion to their Mercury-Prize nominated album Everybody Down, takes us into the beating heart of the capital in this multi-generational tale of drugs, desire and belongingYoung Londoners Becky, Harry and Leon are leaving town in a fourth-hand Ford Cortina with a suitcase full of money. They are running from jealous boyfriends, dead-end jobs, violent maniacs and disgruntled drug dealers, in the hope of escaping the restless tedium of life in south-east London - the place they have always called home.*This book has been printed with two different cover designs. We are unable to accept requests for a specific cover. The different covers will be assigned to orders at random*

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