Why Read by Will Self
From the Booker-shortlisted author of Umbrella, a world-girdling collection of writings inspired by a life lived in and for literature.
The finest essays here are incisive, perceptive and provocativeBut they are also wildly entertaining. * Washington Examiner *
Sharp, trenchant essays from an enfant terrible of modern letters...[there's] plenty to ponder in this energetic, opinionated collection * Kirkus Reviews *
Will Self may not be the last modernist at work but at the moment he's the most fascinating of the tradition's torch bearers. * New York *
Self is the most daring and delightful novelist of his generation, a writer whose formidable intellect is mercilessly targeted on the limits of the cerebral as a means of understanding. Yes, he makes you think, but he also insists that you feel. * Guardian *
Self often enough writes with such vividness it's as if he is the first person to see anything at all. * New York Times *
Self has indeed been a goat among the sheep of contemporary English fiction, a puckish trickster self-consciously at odds with its middle-class politeness. * New York Review of Books *
Sharp, trenchant essays from an enfant terrible of modern letters...[there's] plenty to ponder in this energetic, opinionated collection * Kirkus Reviews *
Will Self may not be the last modernist at work but at the moment he's the most fascinating of the tradition's torch bearers. * New York *
Self is the most daring and delightful novelist of his generation, a writer whose formidable intellect is mercilessly targeted on the limits of the cerebral as a means of understanding. Yes, he makes you think, but he also insists that you feel. * Guardian *
Self often enough writes with such vividness it's as if he is the first person to see anything at all. * New York Times *
Self has indeed been a goat among the sheep of contemporary English fiction, a puckish trickster self-consciously at odds with its middle-class politeness. * New York Review of Books *
Will Self is the author of many novels and books of non-fiction, including Great Apes, The Book of Dave, How the Dead Live, which was shortlisted for the Whitbread Novel of the Year 2002, The Butt, winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction 2008, and Umbrella, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2012. He lives in south London.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781611854213 |
| ISBN 10 | 1611854210 |
| Title | Why Read |
| Author | Will Self |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press |
| Year published | 2023-11-02 |
| Number of pages | 336 |
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