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Product Description
Mal isn't like the other kids. He makes an impression on everyone he meets. So remarkable is his childhood that his family wait for the incredible things he seems born to do. Then one day he goes to bed, never to get out again. Recounted by Mal's younger brother, 'Bed' is a coming-of-age story like no other.
Review
'The best new novel I've read in ages.' --Sam Delaney, 'Guardian'

'Staggering, inventive, and heartbreakingly beautiful.'--'Esquire' (UK)

''Bed' is a deftly-told wonder. Mr. Whitehouse's writing is accomplished, poetic, and deeply affecting.'--Joe Meno, author of 'Hairstyles of the Damned'

'David Whitehouse has taken what might be a gimmicky hook in a lesser writer's hands--a romance triangulating around a bedridden media spectacle, the world's most obese man--and turned it, through lapidary prose, into a soulful meditation on a fraternal love as singular as it is universal.'--Teddy Wayne, author of 'Kapitoil'

'Sad and funny and pretty brilliant, too.'--'The Observer' (UK)

'A totally extraordinary and original novel.'--'Heat' (UK)

'Masterful... [An] accomplished debut... [Whitehouse] maintains a tone of subtlety and grace, pulling a distinguished and accessible story out of a profoundly strange experience.'--'Publishers Weekly', starred review ('Pick of the Week')

'A deeply affecting debut... A thoughtful commentary on food obsession, celebrity and, ultimately, a brother's love.'--'People'

'Outlandishly clever description... Ingenious one-liners... There's no question that [David Whitehouse] is a writer to watch.'--Janet Maslin, 'New York Times'

'Gorgeous writing... A deceptively effortless, haunting first novel.'--'Boston Globe'

'A gorgeous, heartrending book, a book full of sentences so apt and well wrought, I sometimes had to read them twice.'--Henry Alford, 'San Francisco Chronicle'