Bullet Points - Hardcover

Watson, Mark

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313 ratings by Goodreads

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0701176091 ISBN 13: 9780701176099

Publisher: Chatto & Windus, 2004

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Psychologist Peter Kristal has a method for sorting out people's lives. By arranging their histories like the index entries in a biography - --born, 1--achieves various things, 2-x --dies, x+1- the sequences of cause and effect that have led to their particular neuroses is cunningly revealed. His technique gains him a modicum of success: a thriving practise in Chicago (a far cry from his native East Anglia), with a client list comprised of rising stars. But, Pete is constantly aware that his childhood friend, Richard Aloisi, is always one lap ahead of him. Based in New York, Richard is treating A-list celebrities and advising the NYPD on high-profile court cases. Pete would be the first to admit that his inferiority complex is the key bullet point in his life. But by concentrating on Richard as the source of his problems, he is blind to other factors which put both his life and the lives of others at risk. Never as obvious as it purports to be, Bullet Points is a wonderfully witty, pacey, clever novel that keeps you guessing to the very end. Twenty-three-year-old Mark Watson has imagined himself into the head of a middle-aged man with remarkable skill, creating a character whose destructive sense of inadequacy will touch a nerve in anyone who has wanted to be someone else. (2003-04-02)

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Review:

Brilliantly hilarious and hilariously brilliant. Woody Allen and William Boyd have had a bastard love-child...his name is Mark Watson -- Stephen Fry

Watson's command of the warped modern jargons of both celebrity and therapy give his book a rancidly comic flavour... -- Independent's '2004 Talent Special', Boyd Tonkin

From the Publisher:

Take Dave Eggers, Ben Elton and John Lanchester (in Debt to Pleasure mode) and you might get a sense of this brilliant first novel from a prodigiously talented 23-year-old stand-up comedian.

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