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<p>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?</p><p><strong>Nicola Barker</strong> fearlessly crams all that and more into this ribald and outrageous peep show of a novel her most irreverent caustic up-to-the-minute work yet laying bare the heart of our contemporary world a world of illusion delusion celebrity and hunger.</p>