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Bigot Hall (Paperback)

by Steve Aylett (Author)
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  • 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.co.uk Sales Rank: 95,914 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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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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Steve Aylett is 36. He lives and works in Brighton. If he were any more English he'd be dead.
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5.0 out of 5 stars English Psychedelic insanity, 22 Mar 2002
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.

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5.0 out of 5 stars This book is a brain-scrambling laugh-a-sentence., 17 Feb 1999
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I have never read anything as funny (or as odd) in my life. Steve Aylett has a true way with descriptions which at first is novel in its ability to completely startle, then becomes almost a part of you. Every sentence in this book seems to contain something which will make you laugh out loud (which is very embarrassing, especially on a train.) Beware: if of a shy disposition, read in private. Bigot Hall is about a dysfunctional 'family' - the likes of which you've never seen in a comic - never mind real life - yet there is something bizarrely familiar about the characters which inhabit Bigot Hall. You will never regret buying this book. It's even good enough to firm up those spare tires with lots of belly laughs. (Dreadful cover though.)
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5.0 out of 5 stars perfect, 16 Nov 2008
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I've never read a Steve Ayelett 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 Ayelett 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 Ayelett books tend to be mis-sold as zany and sensationalist which they're really not.
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