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Cris Freddi
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  • Paperback: 240 pages
  • Publisher: Harper Perennial (3 April 2006)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0007185197
  • ISBN-13: 978-0007185191
  • Product Dimensions: 19 x 12.7 x 2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,064,723 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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An original, deeply felt novel whose raw lyricism feels powered by the forces of nature itself.

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‘[Freddi’s] sensitive treatment of the rekindled romance between artist Stevie and the trigger-happy narrator reveals subtle emotional shadings. Bill Oddie is unlikely to approve of a novel with such a wonky moral compass, which is just one of the many good reasons for reading it’ Sunday Times

‘Compulsively readable. It is, at heart, a thoughtful and often moving meditation on the nature of obsession and the redemptive role of love and friendship in lives damaged by the hammer-blows of experience. It’s also a bitter lament for a world blighted by human greed and folly’ Jem Poster, Guardian

‘Far from being a dry exposition on a minority pastime, Pelican Blood combines in its central character a scorching, militant passion for the environment with a strongly urban sense of nihilism, evoking a savage universe where the ruthless cycles and lonely beauty of the natural world feel far more meaningful than the cut-and-thrust emptiness of the civilised one. This is an original, deeply felt novel whose raw lyricism feels powered by the forces of nature itself’ Metro

‘The unnamed narrator of Pelican Blood is a committed bird watcher, but Bill Oddie he ain’t. Misanthropic, foul-mouthed and suicidally depressed, he twitches compulsively rather than for fun – once they’ve been ticked off the list, the birds are of little interest in themselves. Amid the company of misfits that he keeps, though, he doesn’t seem all that unusual, and he does have two very close friends. Their booze-and drug-fuelled banter makes up much of the book, and the love affair he resumes with one of them provides drama and the eventual route to his salvation’ Laurence Phelan, Independent on Sunday


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1 of 3 people found the following review helpful
compulsive 4 Sep 2006
Format:Paperback
It says 'compulsively readable' on the cover, from a review in the Guardian, and that is exactly what it is. It is weird, but wonderfully weird, and beautiful and moving when you least expect it. Unlike most other fiction out there, which is what makes it so special.
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4 of 9 people found the following review helpful
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Format:Paperback
A wonderful piece of writing - really accomplished. I would never have bought a book about birdwatching but I couldn't put it down - it's Hitchcockian in its suspense and lyrical and elegiac too.

This writer should win lots of awards. The jacket is brilliant too!

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1 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Birdwatchers go weird 28 Jun 2006
By S. Shaw
Format:Paperback
This book is weird and strangely disturbing insight into the world of twitching (chasing rare birds). The main character is nameless and genderless but you assume its male, but that may not be correct.

Overall I didn't enjoy it that much. Just too weird.
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