Kev King

Kev King is the narrator of novelist C. M. Taylor's controversial, satirical football novel, Premiership Psycho (ISBN 978-1-84901-594-3).

An all action midfielder, 'compulsive shagger'[1] and psychopathic customer vigilante who "targets those who have committed offences against consumerism",[2] King shakes off a fall from grace to become an unnamed London Premier League club's star player, guiding the club to the treble.

Kev narrates the novel himself in an aggressive, slangy and product-obsessed "inventive language",[3] which has led one critic to call Kev King a "stream of consciousness brand warrior".[4] While Kev King's obsessions and neurosis have led to him being described as a "worthy and logical successor"[5] to Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho.

Controversy and reception

One critic of Premiership Psycho have found Kev King to be "arrogant" and "full of misplaced self importance",[6] while another reviewer stated that the book was "detestable", "sexist", and, "aimed at those who see woman as objects".[7]

Yet most reviewers have interpreted Kev King's abundant and exaggerated faults as a "merciless satire"[8] on the shallow world of overpaid footballers, with FourFourTwo magazine calling the book "American Psycho for the hundred grand a week generation...", "genius" and "brilliantly appalling",[9] while The Sun called Kev King a "huge mickey take on celebrity"[10] and the Daily Mirror described him as "horribly entertaining".[11]

Wider influence on culture

References

  1. ↑ http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/premiership-psycho-by-c-m-taylor-2198406.html
  2. ↑ http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/premiership-psycho-by-c-m-taylor-2198406.html
  3. ↑ http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/premiership-psycho-by-c-m-taylor-2198406.html
  4. ↑ http://twofootedtackle.com/book-reviews/book-review-premiership-psycho/
  5. ↑ http://twofootedtackle.com/book-reviews/book-review-premiership-psycho/
  6. ↑ http://madhousefamilyreviews.blogspot.com/2010/11/book-review-premiership-psycho-cm.html
  7. ↑ http://www.newbooksmag.com/reviews/6491-9378/review.php
  8. ↑ http://www.greeneheaton.co.uk/pages/authors/title.asp?AuthorID=160&TitleID=316
  9. ↑ http://www.greeneheaton.co.uk/pages/authors/title.asp?AuthorID=160&TitleID=316
  10. ↑ http://www.amazon.co.uk/Premiership-Psycho-C-M-Taylor/dp/1849015945
  11. ↑ http://www.amazon.co.uk/Premiership-Psycho-C-M-Taylor/dp/1849015945

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