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The Bricks That Built the Houses Hardcover - 2016

by Kae Tempest


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Becky, Harry, and Leon are leaving London in a fourth-hand Ford with a suitcase full of stolen money, in a mess of tangled loyalties and impulses. But can they truly leave the city that's in their bones? Kate Tempest's novel reaches back through time--through tensely quiet dining rooms and crassly loud clubs--to the first time Becky and Harry meet. It sprawls through their lives and those they touch--of their families and friends and faces on the street--revealing intimacies and the moments that make them. And it captures the contemporary struggle of urban life, of young people seeking jobs or juggling jobs, harboring ambitions and making compromises. The Bricks that Built the Houses is an unexpected love story. It's about being young, but being part of something old. It's about how we become ourselves, and how we effect our futures. Rich in character and restless in perspective, driven by ethics and empathy, it asks--and seeks to answer--how best to live with and love one another. Kate Tempest, a major talent in the poetry and music worlds, sits poised to become a major novelist as well.

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  • Title The Bricks That Built the Houses
  • Author Kae Tempest
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition 1st US Edition
  • Pages 416
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Bloomsbury USA, New York
  • Date 2016-05
  • ISBN 9781620409015 / 1620409011
  • Weight 1.2 lbs (0.54 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.3 x 5.8 x 1.3 in (21.08 x 14.73 x 3.30 cm)
  • Themes
    • Demographic Orientation: Urban
  • Library of Congress subjects London (England), Conduct of life
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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Citations

  • Booklist, 04/01/2016, Page 21
  • Library Journal, 12/01/2015, Page 0
  • Library Journal Prepub Alert, 12/01/2015, Page 72
  • School Library Journal, 12/01/2016, Page 46
  • Shelf Awareness, 05/06/2016, Page 0

About the author

Kate Tempest grew up in southeast London, where she still lives. She has gained acclaim as a poet, playwright, rapper, and recording artist. Her long poem Brand New Ancients, conceived as a performance piece, won the Ted Hughes Award for Poetry in 2012. In 2014, her album Everybody Down was shortlisted for the Mercury Prize and she was selected as one of this decade's Next Generation Poets by the Poetry Book Society. She is also the author of the collection Hold Your Own. This is her first novel.
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