A tour de force

Time Out

Self's sexually explicit fable bubbles with filth and bile, and Martin Rowson's splendid illustrations always rise to the occasion ...Spot-on

Independent on Sunday

Self is the master of the art of a telling sentence, and his portrait is instantly recognisable from his swaggering prose ... Self and Rowson take the reader into the realm of Burroughs's "abysmal depths", exhibiting all the alchemic possibilities of narcotics

Observer

Se alle

This sheer love of language, the belief that the high of literature is to be found by snorting words off a Webster's, sets Self up at the bar with great linguistic junkies like T.C. Boyle

Los Angeles Times

Thrust into the seedy underworld of hack reporters and Soho drinking dens, young Richard Hermes is skidding down a cocaine slope of self-destruction in pursuit of the impossibly beautiful socialite-cum-columnist Ursula Bentley. But between Richard and his object of desire stands his omnipresent nemesis, the lubricious Bell, doyen of late night radio shows, provider of drugs and gossip, and ringmaster of the Sealink Club.Erudite and witty as ever, this hilarious novella is vintage Self at his acerbic, incisive best, brilliantly illustrated by Martin Rowson's sharp, dark, satirical pen.
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781408827390
Publisert
2011-09-19
Utgiver
Vendor
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Vekt
74 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Dybde
6 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
92

Forfatter

Om bidragsyterne

Will Self is an English novelist, journalist, political commentator and television personality. He is the author of ten novels, five collections of shorter fiction, three novellas, and five collections of non-fiction writing.