The Kills by Richard House
At over 1,000 pages, The Kills is by far the longest novel on the 2013 Man Booker Prize longlist. It is by novelist, Richard House, and comes trumpeted as a multimedia experience, for House is also a filmmaker and there are short films that add to The Kills experience when viewed online or embedded in the digital edition. The Kills is actually four novellas grouped together (the spine of the hardback states that these are Books 1 – 4, novellas individually titled Sutler, The Massive, The Kill and The Hit, and all were, it seems, published individually as ebooks before being grouped together for physical publication.) Then there are those online films – the book provides the URLs and tells you when they should be watched. If you buy the book on your iPad you can watch the films at the right spots. These films are extras, things that enhance what you know already, or offer a side story connected to the main plot, and though they are not necessary t...