Liver: and Other Stories

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EAN/UPC/ISBN Code 9780140290578

Автор

Издатель Penguin Group

Вес 195 гр

Страниц 288

Год выпуска 2009

Форма выпуска 130x200

"Liver" - Booker prize nominee Will Self"s extraordinary examination of lives out of control. "Magnificent, horribly funny". ("The Times"). "Brilliant. One of the most manically imaginative writers at work today". ("Financial Times"). "This is what Self does best: snap-shots of decline and high-concept satires of the "slapstick of addiction". ("Sunday Telegraph"). "The best work of Self"s I"ve read". ("Literary Review"). From Will Self, the Booker shortlisted author of "Umbrella" and the pre-eminent chronicler of our neuroses and our times, "Liver" is a moving, hilarious and scabrous collection of stories about egos, appetites and addictions. It will be adored by readers of Martin Amis, Irvine Welsh and David Mitchell. "Peculiar, subtle, affecting, humane ...busy with stylistic experiment, high-concept in-jokes, verbal impasto and flights of fancy. Tremendous fun". ("Guardian"). "No one can revel in the disease and decay of humanity like Self". ("Metro"). "Self is a superb stylist...