Clear

Nicola Barker

first published 2004 HarperPerennial, 2005 paperback 280 pages

On September 5, 2003, illusionist David Blaine entered a small Perspex box adjacent to London's Thames River 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 thi...

Where to get it

Search WorldCat (worldwide union catalog) for this title

This opens a library search. We don't know what any library holds — the search may come back empty.

Change library
You pick this yourself. We don't guess it from your location, and we don't record where you are.

How it reads

Pace We don't know yet not analysed yet
Density We don't know yet not analysed yet
Tone We don't know yet not analysed yet

Your log

Sign in to log this book — your log is private to you.

What readers call it

No reader has tagged this one yet — be the first.

Sign in to confirm or add — reader tags are the only source of this information.

Content warnings

Reported by readers, not by us or the author. Unreported is not the same as absent.

No content warnings reported. That means no reader has added one yet — not that this book has none.

Also called trigger warnings. Reader reporting opens with the reading log.

Add a content warning

Editions we hold

Clear ebook · 2009 · HarperCollins · 9780061986079
Clear paperback · 2005 · HarperPerennial · 280 pages · 9780007193615
Clear paperback · 2005 · Harper Perennial · 352 pages · 9780060797577
Clear hardcover · 2004 · Fourth Estate · 352 pages · 9780007192410

Bibliographic facts on this page come from the Open Library monthly dump (CC0) unless a correction says otherwise. Nothing here is generated.