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The Bricks That Built the Houses Hardback - 2016

by Kae Tempest

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The highly anticipated debut novel from Kae Tempest--acclaimed poet, playwright, rapper, and recording artist--proves their talent to be boundless and unstoppable.

Becky, Harry, and Leon are leaving London in a fourth-hand Ford with a suitcase full of stolen money, in a mess of tangled loyalties and impulses. But can they truly leave the city that's in their bones?

Kae Tempest's novel reaches back through time--through tensely quiet dining rooms and crassly loud clubs--to the first time Becky and Harry meet. It sprawls through their lives and those they touch--of their families and friends and faces on the street--revealing intimacies and the moments that make them. And it captures the contemporary struggle of urban life, of young people seeking jobs or juggling jobs, harboring ambitions and making compromises.

The Bricks that Built the Houses is an unexpected love story. It's about being young, but being part of something old. It's about how we become ourselves, and how we effect our futures. Rich in character and restless in perspective, driven by ethics and empathy, it asks--and seeks to answer--how best to live with and love one another.

Kae Tempest, a major talent in the poetry and music worlds, sits poised to become a major novelist as well.

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  • Title The Bricks That Built the Houses
  • Author Kae Tempest
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition 1st US Edition
  • Pages 416
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Bloomsbury USA, New York
  • Publication date 2016-05
  • Features Dust Cover
  • ISBN 9781620409015 / 1620409011
  • Weight 1.3 lbs (0.59 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.5 x 5.8 x 1.2 in (21.59 x 14.73 x 3.05 cm)
  • Themes
    • Demographic Orientation: Urban
  • Category Fiction - General
  • Library of Congress subjects London (England), Conduct of life
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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Citations

  • Booklist, 04/01/2016, Page 21
  • Library Journal, 04/15/2016, Page 85
  • Library Journal Prepub Alert, 12/01/2015, Page 72
  • School Library Journal, 05/01/2016, Page 126
  • Shelf Awareness, 05/06/2016, Page 0

About the author

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.

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