Blackbox by Nick Walker

Blackbox by Nick Walker

Cross a road, take a train or get on an aeroplane and you put your life in the hands of a stranger - every bit as screwed up, every bit as fallible, every bit as human as you are. So, meet an apparently disparate group of people - a comedian whose sole gag consists of committing suicide; an air traffic controller with a fear of flying and a pyschiatrist more in need of therapy than his patients - all of whom are connected to the tragic death of a stowaway on a flight into Birmingham in 1978. Twenty years later, they are powerless to interfere as the identity of the body emerges through stolen black box recordings, answer-machine tapes, surveillance footage and court transcripts. BLACK BOX is their desperate attempt to erase a life on tape.

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 unpredictableA 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

Nick Walker has written, acted and produced drama, including one man shows to audiences of seven and sketches on Radio 4, Nick hates flying.

SKU	Unavailable
ISBN 13	9780747268765
ISBN 10	0747268762
Title	Blackbox
Author	Nick Walker
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Headline Publishing Group
Year published	2002-05-07
Number of pages	320
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.