This Is How We Die

Christopher Brett-Bailey author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Published:20th Nov '14

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From the desk of Christopher Brett Bailey comes a spiraling odyssey of pitch-black humour and nightmarish prose.

A prime slice of surrealist trash, an Americana death trip and a dizzying exorcism for a world convinced it is dying.

a motor-mouthed collage of spoken word and storytelling. tales of paranoia, young love and ultra-violence… from the desk of christopher brett bailey comes a spiralling odyssey of pitch-black humour and nightmarish prose. THIS IS HOW WE DIE is a prime slice of surrealist trash, an Americana death trip and a dizzying exorcism for a world convinced it is dying…

‘Is this actually how we die? Driven at disorientingly high speed through the blazing landscape of our own riot-torn hearts, while the radio blares adverts for impossible products conceived in the agonizing heat of capitalism’s terminal inferno? Christopher Brett Bailey auctions off everything we have and everything we think we know to the lowest bidder, leaving us stripped and spent and blissed out and beaten by language, that treacherous stuff we had thought was our friend. No, there ain’t no sanity clause: but I’d trust Bailey with my life, and if this is how we die, you know, it’s really not such a bad way to go.’ Chris Goode

Really shocks or transforms you - achingly hip and frighteningly savage - an extraordinary experience. * Lyn Gardner, The Guardian *
Blisteringly brilliant - a staggeringly eloquent piece of work. * The Scotsman *
Is this actually how we die? Driven at disorientingly high speed through the blazing landscape of our own riot-torn hearts, while the radio blares adverts for impossible products conceived in the agonizing heat of capitalism’s terminal inferno? Christopher Brett Bailey auctions off everything we have and everything we think we know to the lowest bidder, leaving us stripped and spent and blissed out and beaten by language, that treacherous stuff we had thought was our friend. No, there ain’t no sanity clause: but I’d trust Bailey with my life, and if this is how we die, you know, it’s really not such a bad way to go. -- Chris Goode
a visceral, world-burning piece… a brutal, vital, incredible show. * Total Theatre *

ISBN: 9781783191970

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 176g

120 pages