- Paperback: 160 pages
- Publisher: Phoenix; New edition edition (12 Oct 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0575402938
- ISBN-13: 978-0575402935
- Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 13 x 1.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,090,026 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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As English as marmalade and as crazy as California, a blisteringly sharp novel from the author of The Inflatable Volunteer
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Bigot Hall is the nightmare home of a family most people would rather forget. Uncle Burst's belief that his face is made of pasta is one of the milder notions with which he regales the family. Uncle Snapper is confined to a treehouse because of the uncontrollable urges he feels once is gun is loaded. Uncle Blute drowned in the lake at the wheel of his Morris Traveller, where he remains perfectly preserved. And Nanny Jack refuses all efforts to bury her and strikes terror into her relatives' hearts as she abandons yet another final resting place. Throughout this happy breed strolls a nameless anti-hero, who, when not kidnapped by clowns or puzzling out the fossilised family tree, is passionately in love with his spaced-out sister, Adrienne . . .
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I'ts hard to do this book justice in a capsule review. Mr Aylett uses language like a virus, I have found myself repeating some of his more "martian" similes ~ "As eminently punchable as a Town Crier" in coversation, to the slack jawed horror of my friends and colleagues.
It is, to be fair, a "love it or hate it" book. I have forced friends to read it with mixed results, some are as passionate about it as I am, others regard it as a complete waste of time. So please keep that caveat in mind.
It is a collection of linked short stories, about a boy growing up in a "Alice in Wonderland" style inversion of logic. In that way, it is part of the grand tradition of Carroll and Chesterton, as much as it is of William Burroughs and JG Ballard.
Magic Surrealism, in a word.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I've never read a Steve Aylett book I didn't love but Bigot Hall is one of my absolute favourites. I also suspect it's one of his most accessible, a good introduction to the Steve Aylett style. Every page snaps crackles and pops with language. The ideas have stayed with me and I only wish the book had been longer. I can't praise Bigot Hall enough. Just dont be put off by the lame blurb on the back cover: Steve Aylett books tend to be mis-sold as zany and sensationalist which they're really more than that.
Edited to Add: I re-read this book recently and still laughed out loud at the court-room scene. If he author is reading this - more of the same, please!
Edited to Add: I re-read this book recently and still laughed out loud at the court-room scene. If he author is reading this - more of the same, please!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The previous reviewers know what's-what with this.It's ace.Funny to the funny parts of you.It'll tie you in silly knots.Genuinely laugh-out-loud absurdism with truly memorable bits you'll want to recount to those you can corner for long enough.There is not a lot else to say about this.
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