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  | | The Book of Dave (Paperback) by Will Self Paperback, Published 2019 by Grove Press, United States ISBN-13: 978-0-8021-2926-0, ISBN: 0-8021-2926-9 |
 | | Shark(Reprint) by Will Self Paperback, 480 Pages, Published 2015 by Grove Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8021-2417-3, ISBN: 0-8021-2417-8 "May 4th, 1970. A week earlier President Nixon has ordered American ground forces into Cambodia to pursue the Vietcong. By the end of the day four students will be shot dead by the National Guards in the grounds of Kent State University. On the other side of the Atlantic, it's a brilliant sunny morning after an April of heavy rain, and at the "Concept House" therapeutic community he has set up in the London suburb of Willesden, maverick ..." |
 | | Umbrella by Will Self Paperback, 448 Pages, Published 2013 by Grove Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8021-2202-5, ISBN: 0-8021-2202-7 "A brother is as easily forgotten as an umbrella. James Joyce, "Ulysses" 1918Audrey Deathfeminist, socialist and munitions worker at Woolwich Arsenalfalls ill with encephalitis lethargica as the epidemic rages across Europe, killing a third of its victims and condemning a further third to living death. 1971Under the curious eyes of psychiatrist Dr. Zack Busner, assumed mental patient Audrey Death lies supine in bed above a spring grotto ..." |
 | | My Idea of Fun A Cautionary Tale by Will Self Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2005 by Grove Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8021-4213-9, ISBN: 0-8021-4213-3 "An international financier and his young apprentice form the center of a wickedly acute story of capitalism run amuck, in a society in which consumerism, violence, and psychosis are the norm and the human soul becomes the ultimate product." |
 | | Dorian(Reprint) by Will Self Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2004 by Grove Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8021-4047-0, ISBN: 0-8021-4047-5 "Will Self's DORIAN is a "shameless imitation" of Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray that reimagines the novel in the milieu of London's early-80s art scene, which for liberated homosexuals were a golden era of sex, drugs and decadence before the AIDS epidemic struck later in the decade. It is "an age in which appearances matter more and more and more. Only the shallowest of people won't judge by them." Young Dorian Gray, just out ..." |
 | | How the Dead Live by Will Self Paperback, 416 Pages, Published 2001 by Grove Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8021-3848-4, ISBN: 0-8021-3848-9 "In April 1988, 65-year-old Lily Bloom quickly succumbs to cancer in the Royal Ear Hospital. ("Where do they keep the Royal Ear, I wonder? I think of it as very large--as big as a dinner tray--and very red, angrily red.") But after life there's death. Guided by an aborigine named Phar Lap Jones, she is transported by a Greek Cypriot minicab driver to the North London dead neighborhood of Dulston. There, accompanied by her dead son, ..." |
 | | Grey Area by Will Self Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 2006 by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc ISBN-13: 978-0-7475-8235-9, ISBN: 0-7475-8235-1 "A collection of short stories from one of our most imaginative writers." |
 | | The Quantity Theory of Insanity(Reprint) by Will Self Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 1996 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-0-679-75094-9, ISBN: 0-679-75094-0 "What if there is only a limited amount of sanity in the world and the real reason people go mad is because somebody has to? What if a mysterious tribe in the Amazon rainforest turn out to be the most boring people on the earth? What if the afterlife is nothing more than a London suburb, where the dead get new flats, new jobs, and their own telephone directory? These are the sort of truths that emerge in this collection of stories by one ..." |
 | | The Butt (Paperback) by Will Self Paperback, Published 2019 by Grove Press, United States ISBN-13: 978-0-8021-2928-4, ISBN: 0-8021-2928-5 |
 | | Phone by Will Self Hardcover, 624 Pages, Published 2018 by Grove Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8021-2537-8, ISBN: 0-8021-2537-9 "Published to rave reviews in the United Kingdom, Phone tells the story of two men: Zack Busner and Jonathan De’Ath. Busner is a psychiatrist who has made his name through his unorthodox treatment of psychological damage, such as giving the controversial drug L-DOPA to patients ravaged by encephalitis, or administering LSD to World War II PTSD-sufferers. But now Busner’s own mind is fraying: Alzheimer’s is shredding his memory and his ne ..." |
 | | Shark (Paperback) by Will Self Paperback, 480 Pages, Published 2014 by Penguin Export ISBN-13: 978-0-670-91858-4, ISBN: 0-670-91858-X "Shark turns upon an actual incident in WWII - mentioned in the film Jaws - when the ship which had delivered the fissile material to the south Pacific to be dropped on Hiroshima was subsequently sunk by a Japanese submarine with the loss of 900 men, including 200 killed in the largest shark attack ever recorded. When the Creep, an American resident in the 1970s at the therapeutic community in north London supervised by maverick psychiat ..." |
 | | Shark by Will Self Hardcover, 400 Pages, Published 2014 by Grove Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8021-2310-7, ISBN: 0-8021-2310-4 "May 4th, 1970. A week earlier President Nixon has ordered American ground forces into Cambodia to pursue the Vietcong. By the end of the day four students will be shot dead by the National Guards in the grounds of Kent State University. On the other side of the Atlantic, it's a brilliant sunny morning after an April of heavy rain, and at the "Concept House" therapeutic community he has set up in the London suburb of Willesden, maverick ..." |
 | | The Sweet Smell of Psychosis by Will Self Paperback, 92 Pages, Published 2011 by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc ISBN-13: 978-1-4088-2739-0, ISBN: 1-4088-2739-5 "Thrust into the seedy underworld of hack reporters and Soho drinking dens, young Richard Hermes is skidding down a cocaine slope of self-destruction in pursuit of the impossibly beautiful socialite-cum-columnist Ursula Bentley. But between Richard and his object of desire stands his omnipresent nemesis, the lubricious Bell, doyen of late night radio shows, provider of drugs and gossip, and ringmaster of the Sealink Club. Erudite and wit ..." |
 | | Cock and Bull Reissued (Paperback) by Will Self Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2011 by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc ISBN-13: 978-1-4088-2741-3, ISBN: 1-4088-2741-7 "Carol, the heroine of Cock, is extremely dissatisfied with her married life. Realisation that her husband Dan is not the man for her has come too late and insult follows injury as Dan's drinking problem gives way to an obsessive fervour for Alcoholics Anonymous. One evening while Dan is out, Carol discovers something entirely unexpected about herself that leads her into rather twisted and distinctly uncharted waters ...On the flip side, ..." |
 | | Dorian An Imitation by Will Self Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2009 by Penguin Books ISBN-13: 978-0-14-104020-2, ISBN: 0-14-104020-3 "Dorian - Will Self's brilliant 'imitation' of Oscar Wilde's original tainted love story 'Brutal, savage, infinitely readable' Observer 'Chilling, hysterical, tasteless and haunting. A Gothic thriller complementing and enriching its original' Independent on Sunday In the summer of 1981, aristocratic, drug-addicted Henry Wooten and Warhol-acolyte Baz Hallward meet Dorian Gray. Dorian is a golden adonis - perfect, pure and (so far) delicio ..." |
 | | Dr Mukti and Other Tales of Woe by Will Self, J. M. Cohen Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 2009 by Penguin Books ISBN-13: 978-0-14-104019-6, ISBN: 0-14-104019-X "Dr Mukti and Other Tales of Woe - an astonishing collection by Booker nominee Will Self'Strange, disquieting, very funny and, frankly, rather frightening' GQAs good as anything he has written ... one of Self's grisliest creations. There is no contemporary writer of fiction more perceptive about psychosis' Financial Times'Self's enjoyable, intelligent collection of savage stories is splendidly satiric. The title story is a brilliant no ..." |
 | | The Butterfly Mosque(1st Edition) a Young American Woman's Journey to Love and Islam by Will Self, G. Willow Wilson Pasta Dura, 368 Pages, Published 2008 by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc ISBN-13: 978-0-7475-9175-7, ISBN: 0-7475-9175-X "Will Self is the author of four collections ... six novels (of which How the Dead Live was shortlisted for the Whitbread Novel of the Year in 2002), ..." |
 | | The Book of Dave(Reprint) A Revelation of the Recent Past and the Distant Future by Will Self Paperback, 512 Pages, Published 2007 by Penguin Books Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-14-101454-8, ISBN: 0-14-101454-7 ""The Book of Dave" is Booker-shortlisted author Will Self's dazzling sixth novel. What if a demented London cabbie called Dave Rudman wrote a book to his estranged son to give him some fatherly advice? What if that book was buried in Hampstead and hundreds of years later, when rising sea levels have put London underwater, spawned a religion? What if one man decided to question life according to Dave? And what if Dave had indeed made a m ..." |
 | | Cock and Bull(Updated) (New edition) by Will Self Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2006 by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc ISBN-13: 978-0-7475-8234-2, ISBN: 0-7475-8234-3 "Includes two novellas that aim to challenge our ideas and assumptions about masculinity and femininity." |
 | | My Idea of Fun(Updated) by Will Self Paperback, 384 Pages, Published 2006 by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Import ISBN-13: 978-0-7475-8233-5, ISBN: 0-7475-8233-5 "When the young Ian Wharton first meets Mr Broadhurst, he is completely unaware of theinfluence he will come to exert over his life as ' The Fat Controller ' - ..." |
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