Full name: Clear: A Transparent Novel

Author: Nicola Barker Year: 2004 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Fiction Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads LibraryThing Amazon ISBNs: 9780060797577 0060797576

On September 5, 2003, illusionist David Blaine entered a small Perspex box suspended alongside the Thames and began starving himself. Forty-four days later, on October 19, he left the box, fifty pounds lighter. That much, at least, is clear. And the rest? The crowds? The chaos? The hype? The rage? The fights? The lust? The filth? The bullshit? The hypocrisy? Nicola Barker fearlessly crams all that and more into this ribald and outrageous peep show of a novel, her most irreverent, caustic, up-to-the-minute work yet, laying bare the heart of our contemporary world, a world of illusion, delusion, celebrity, and hunger. Similar books: Confidence by Ben Richards Five Miles from Outer Hope by Nicola Barker A Partisan's Daughter by Louis de Bernieres How It All Began by Penelope Lively Sour Sweet by Timothy Mo Ten Things I've Learnt About Love by Sarah Butler Village School by Miss Read Coral Glynn by Peter Cameron Fresh from the Country by Miss Read Tyler's Row by Miss Read Village Centenary by Miss Read In the Kitchen by Monica Ali Thrush Green by Miss Read The Book of Color by Julia Blackburn City of the Mind by Penelope Lively Winterton Blue by Trezza Azzopardi Take Me With You by Catherine Ryan Hyde Empire Falls by Richard Russo Anne of Windy Poplars by Lucy Maud Montgomery The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes