{"product_id":"books-my-idea-of-fun-by-will-self","title":"My Idea of Fun","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"For intelligence and ambition . . . inventive comedy, heartbreak and levity . . . Will Self belongs in the company of Nabokov, Pynchon, William Gaddis and Don DeLillo.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWill Self has established himself as one of the most brilliant, daring, and inventive writers of his generation. \u003ci\u003eMy Idea of Fun\u003c\/i\u003e is Will Self's highly acclaimed first novel. The story of a devilishly clever international financier\/marketing wizard and his young apprentice, \u003ci\u003eMy Idea of Fun\u003c\/i\u003e is both a frighteningly dark subterranean exploration of capitalism run rampant and a wickedly sharp, technically acute display of linguistic pyrotechnics that glows with pure white-hot brilliance. Ian Wharton is a very ordinary young man until he is taken under the wing of a gentleman known variously as Mr. Broadhurst, Samuel Northcliff, and finally and simply the Fat Controller.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLoudmouthed, impeccably tailored, and a fount of bombastic erudition, the Fat Controller initiates Ian into the dark secrets of his arts -- of marketing, money, and the human psyche -- and takes Ian, and the reader, on a wild voyage around the edges of reality. As we careen into the twenty-first century, Self perfectly captures the zeitgeist of our times: money is the only common language; consumerism, violence, and psychosis (drug-induced and otherwise) prevail; and the human soul has become the ultimate product.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53674054222097,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780802142139.jpg?v=1781529313","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/books-my-idea-of-fun-by-will-self","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}