Harry and Ida Swap Teeth by Stephen Jones
Joined at the head but successfully separated, Henry and Ida Brick like to think they have retained a little piece of each other's brain. Sixteen years old today and short of money, Henry and Ida go to the medical school to give themselves up for guinea pigs.
Better known as Maverick musician Babybird, Stephen Jones has decided to turn his distinctive hand to writing novelsThe results are astonishing. The Bad Book shares its grotesque childlike detail with Ian Banks' The Wasp Factory, but the bleak surreality and contorted memory sequences belong to Jones. Veering imperiously between maudlin monochrome and exuberant technicolour, he proves as adept with narrative and metaphor as he is with choruses and couplets. The Times It is breathtaking in its simplicity and its originality, but also loaded with enough possible interpretations to keep an academic going for years. Jones simply has a gift for the sort of words you relish wrapping your tongue around. The Scotsman As warped as a piece of wood left out in the rain, and as black as a Siberian night sky in Winter, this debut novel barely needs the qualification of alter-ego Babybird, to recommend it. Metro. The Bad Book is Jones' wry take on what tomorrow may bring... it echoes of Blue Velvet. The Wasp Factory, and William Faulkner. Big Issue In The North
Stephen Jones is the musical blacksheep Babybird and the author of The Bad Book. His new soundtrack album due for release in the Spring guarantees a well timed surge of media interest, particularly on TV where Stephen is no stranger to high profile shows. With nine albums released in six years, one top ten gold album, a top three half a million selling single - You're Gorgeous, seven other top forty singles, and now with soundtrack success Stephen continues to mystify and sell music across the world. Henry and Ida Swap Teeth is Stephen's second novel, and has nothing to do with music whatsoever.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780953327577 |
| ISBN 10 | 0953327574 |
| Title | Harry and Ida Swap Teeth |
| Author | Stephen Jones |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Independent Music Press |
| Year published | 2003-04-22 |
| Number of pages | 176 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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