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This breakthrough publication promises both to excite and haunt the reader's imagination. Quentin Blake, the so-called Godfather of Illustration, combines his talents with novelist Will Self, one of the most manically imaginative writers at work today (Financial Times). The resul...
Follows the quest of a neurotic British writer named Will Self as he embarks on a walking tour through Los Angeles to discover what has gone wrong in the movie industry, an endeavor during which he reconnects with a sculptor friend and immerses himself in celebrity culture.
A brother is as easily forgotten as an umbrella. James Joyce, Ulysses Recently having abandoned his RD Laing-influenced experiment in running a therapeutic community - the so-called Concept House in Willesden - maverick psychiatrist Zack Busner arrives at Friern Hospital, a vast ...
"From the Booker-shortlisted author of Umbrella, a world-girdling collection of writings inspired by a life lived in and for literature. From one of the most unusual and distinctive writers working today, dubbed "the most daring and delightful novelist of his generation" by The G...
"Will Self is one of Britain's best-known contemporary writers, a public intellectual whose novels have been shortlisted for the Booker Prize and translated into over twenty languages. In Will, his first ever memoir, he turns his attention fully to his own self, and in particular...
"The Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Umbrella writes his most American novel yet-a brilliant portrait of a 1950s housewife, based on the life of the author's mother, and an exploration of sexual freedom and sublimated desire. Will Self is one of the most inimitable contemporar...
"This documentary novel was written shortly after the suicide of a close friend of Drieu La Rochelle. Set in a sanatorium during the early 1930s, this is an account of the last forty-eight hours in the life of a young French drug addict, Alain. It is, in effect, a sober meditatio...
"Nightwalking is, in both the physical and the moral meanings of the term, deviant. At night, in other words, the idea of wandering cannot be dissociated from the idea of erring--wandering. This elision or semantic slurring is present in the final lines of John Milton's Paradise ...
"Grotesque, deconstructive, and absolutely genius, Vladimir Sorokin's short story collection Dispatches from the District Committee is a revelatory, offbeat portrait of Soviet life beyond the propaganda and state-sponsored realism. Celebrated-and censored-for its political satire...