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Bullet Points

Mark Watson author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Vintage Publishing

Published:3rd Feb '05

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'Woody Allen and William Boyd have had a bastard love-child and his name is Mark Watson' - Stephen Fry

Psychologist Peter Kristal has a method for sorting out people's lives. His technique gains him a modicum of success: a thriving practice in Chicago with a client list of thriving stars.

But by concentrating on his rival Richard he is blind to the other factors which put both his life and the lives of others at risk...

Psychologist Peter Kristal has a method for sorting out people's lives. By arranging their histories like the index entries in a biography, the sequences of cause and effect that have led to their particular neuroses are cunningly revealed. His technique gains him a modicum of success: a thriving practice in Chicago with a client list of thriving stars.

But by concentrating on his rival Richard he is blind to the other factors which put both his life and the lives of others at risk...

He's a fledgling Nabokov for the era of Big Brother * Independent *
Bullet Points is unnervingly accomplished. Expect to hear plenty more about him * Observer *
This is an extremely well plotted novel with a surprisingly twist in the tale and augurs great things for the future * The Times *
Fresh and imaginative... with wonderful flashes of humour. This is a clever and unusual book, and Watson is to be commended * Independent *
Bullet Points is a fluent performance, an extremely competent first novel * Times Literary Supplement *

ISBN: 9780099460855

Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 18mm

Weight: 202g

288 pages