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The Suicide Kit [Paperback]

David L. Hayles
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  • Paperback: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Vintage; New edition edition (6 Nov 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0099431823
  • ISBN-13: 978-0099431824
  • Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 12.8 x 1.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 247,213 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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David L. Haynes's debut is an extraordinary, alarming excursion to a world populated by the suffering, the delusional and the criminally insane. It is a place where death comes unexpectedly and violently, at the hands of pschycopaths, riflemen and cruel accident. These are tales of ingenious cruelty and sudden death in which menace and hilarity go hand in hand. "The Typing Pool" features the tyrannical director of a detention camp, a man in search of a secretary, whose competitive dictation test ends, as planned, in the execution of all but one of the applicants. In "Bones", an uxorious man, fearful of his habit of falling out of love, takes a potion designed to bring blissful fidelity only to begin a strange descent into necrophilia. "The Cruise" opens us to the diary of a bored wife on a cruise liner who inadvertently murders her husband. Elsewhere, we meet a sadistic hotelier whose pleasure is the kidnapping of foreign arrivals at London's Victoria Coach Station, a homicidal corporal who wipes out his own platoon, the incredible Doctor Octor, the worst doctor on Harley Street, and Orson Beadle, travelling purveyor of sex toys, who finds within a fearsome pub a gaggle of willing male initiates. These, the stories that make up "The Suicide Kit", for all their freaks and grotesques, are imbued with a brilliant, brutal humour.

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Born in East Sussex in 1970, David L. Hayles studied film and theatre at London University. After a year in the Caribbean working as a cocktail waiter, he returned to London to study journalism before going on to work for MTV and the BBC, where he now works.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Outstanding 4 Jan 2006
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Format:Paperback
I loved these stories, short, sharp and to the point. I lent it to a friend and she loves them so now I can't get the book back. My favourite was Orson Beadle, a travelling salesman who goes into a pub full of drunks and sells them - no, I won't say, read it for yourself! And Doctor Octor - that is a scream. More please!
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14 of 17 people found the following review helpful
Atrocious 12 April 2005
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Format:Paperback
I rarely bother writing reviews on here, but I just felt it had to be said that this is quite possibly the worst book I've ever read. If you're looking for something 'surreal' and darkly comic, look elsewhere, this is just ameteurish and bland, displaying no originality whatsoever, simply making pitiful attempts to shock that don't come off. It's a wonder how this was ever published.
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8 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Excellent 10 Jan 2004
Format:Paperback
His stories are immediately engaging, dark and always funny. I was often laughing on the Tube while reading this thus causing alarm to my fellow passengers, especially when they read the title of the book.

Try to imagine Dan Rhodes' 'Anthropology' fleshed with a twist of Brass Eye and you'd be close, but not quite there. The originality of thought is refreshing.

Not for the easily offended though!

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