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  • Great Apes

    by Will Self ...
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    Some people lost their sense of proportion, others their sense of scale, but Simon Dykes, a middle-aged, successful London painter, has lost his sense of perspective in a most disturbing fashion. After a night of routine, pedestrian debauchery, traipsing from toilet to toilet, and imbibing a host of narcotics on the way, Simon wakes up cuddled in his girlfriend’s loving arms. Much to his dismay, ... Read more

    RM 31.39

  • How the Dead Live

    by Will Self ...
    Series series Will Self
    Will Self possesses one of the greatest literary imaginations of any writer working today. How the Dead Live is his most extraordinary book yet—a novel that will challenge, entertain, and truly astonish.Lily Bloom is an aging American transplanted to England who has lost her battle with cancer and lies wasting away at the Royal Ear Hospital. As her two daughters—lumpy Charlotte, who runs a hugely ... Read more

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  • Grey Area

    by Will Self ...
    Series series Will Self
    Will Self, whom the Los Angeles Times calls the hottest young novelist in England,” demonstrates his razor-sharp wit in these nine new stories. Self’s method depends upon taking an ordinary aspect of the world and then pushing it to its limit in furious absurdity. The short stories in Grey Area reflect the technical brilliance and satiric voice that have made him one of the most highly praised ... Read more

    RM 33.39

  • Tough, Tough Toys for Tough, Tough Boys

    by Will Self ...
    Series series Will Self
    Tough, Tough Toys for Tough, Tough Boys is a new collection of cork-screwed tales from the author of Great Apes. The Guardian (London) describes Will Self as a wayward genius,” and you can find out why when you observe the author’s pitiless dissection of the foibles of men, women, and the Volvo 760 Turbo.Self’s world is a no-funhouse of warped mirrors. A man is seduced into a misanthropically ... Read more

    RM 29.79

  • The Sweet Smell of Psychosis

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    by Will Self ...
    Series series Will Self
    A brief and brilliant satire of magazine hacks and fashionistas, The Sweet Smell of Psychosis shows Will Self-a writer hailed by Time as brilliant, iconoclastic . . . one of Britain’s most original young writers”-at the top of his form. It looks like it’s going to be quite a Christmas for Richard Hermes, powdered with cocaine and whining with the white noise of urban derangement. Not so much ... Read more

    RM 27.09

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  • How Shall I Know You?

    by Hilary Mantel ...
    An unforgettable, unnerving short story about a writer’s life from one of today’s greatest writers – extracted from her upcoming collection, THE ASSASSINATION OF MARGARET THATCHER.“One summer at the fag-end of the nineties, I had to go out of London to talk to a literary society, of the sort that must have been old-fashioned when the previous century closed. When the day came, I wondered why I’d ... Read more

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  • The Sweet Smell of Psychosis

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  • The Quantity Theory of Insanity

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  • Repeat It Today With Tears

    by Anne Peile ...
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  • Success

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  • My Idea of Fun

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    by Will Self ...
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