Liver by Will Self
These remarkable new pieces from Will Self each feature the largest of our internal organs: the liver, in varying states of disease and decay. In 'Foie Humane' we go inside a Soho drinking club, the denizens of which live in a highly stylised yet emotionally dead state of excess. 'Prometheus' tells the story of a dazzlingly successful advertising copywriter who can sell anything to anyone at any time. But things go wrong when he meets Zeus, a bigshot entrepreneur with a beautiful and manipulative wife. Tony Phillips's subterranean Kensington flat is the setting for 'Birdy Num Num,' where obsessives spend their days in a crepuscular realm of cocaine and heroin. Finally, in 'Leberknodel', a terminal liver cancer patient travels to Zurich to commit assisted suicide. When she arrives, however, the cancer mysteriously goes into remission.
Praise for The Book of Dave: 'Self is..a master of demotic speech and -- rare breed this side of the Channel -- a novelist of ideas' Sunday Telegraph 'Epic and bitterly funny, this new stew of satire and linguistic wizardry is everything you'd expect from Britain's master of misanthropy' Arena 'Self has upped his ante from Monty Python to Jonathan Swift, and gone straight to brilliant hell' Harper's
Praise for The Book of Dave: 'Self is...a master of demotic speech and -- rare breed this side of the Channel -- a novelist of ideas' Sunday Telegraph 'Epic and bitterly funny, this new stew of satire and linguistic wizardry is everything you'd expect from Britain's master of misanthropy' Arena 'Self has upped his ante from Monty Python to Jonathan Swift, and gone straight to brilliant hell' Harper's
Praise for The Book of Dave: 'Self is...a master of demotic speech and -- rare breed this side of the Channel -- a novelist of ideas' Sunday Telegraph 'Epic and bitterly funny, this new stew of satire and linguistic wizardry is everything you'd expect from Britain's master of misanthropy' Arena 'Self has upped his ante from Monty Python to Jonathan Swift, and gone straight to brilliant hell' Harper's
Will Self has earned his reputation through a body of innovative work: there's nobody quite like him writing today. He is the author of five novels, four previous collections of short stories, three novellas and four non-fiction works. As a journalist he has contributed to a plethora of publications over the years; he is also a regular broadcaster on television and radio. He lives in London with his wife and four children.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780670889976 |
| ISBN 10 | 0670889970 |
| Title | Liver |
| Author | Will Self |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2008-09-04 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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