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Chris Killen

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Literature & Fiction, Fiction, Contemporary

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Knut Hamsun, Richard Brautigan, Lorrie Moore, Ann Beattie, Nicholson B ...more

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I am the author of the novels In Real Life (2015) and The Bird Room (2009).

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Average rating: 3.15 · 652 ratings · 108 reviews · 6 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Bird Room 3.10 avg rating — 377 ratings — published 2009 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In Real Life 3.20 avg rating — 272 ratings — published 2015 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Brace: A New Generation in Short Fiction by Jim Hinks (Editor), Guy Russell, Charlotte Allen 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2008 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Born in the 1980s by Alex Wire, Gareth Story, Lou Perez really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2010	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tant qu'on rêve encore by Chris Killen (Goodreads Author), Amélie de Maupeou (Translator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“There is a glass girl in my bed. If I ask too many questions she will shatter.”
― Chris Killen, The Bird Room

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“I want to start again. I want to completely start my life again; to make no mistakes this time; to somehow watch my life from behind a screen; to double-click on the options of my life, very carefully and in my own time.”
― Chris Killen, The Bird Room

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“I want to disappear.
I want to not be a part of things anymore.”
― Chris Killen, The Bird Room

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