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The finest essays here are incisive, perceptive and provocative. But 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 *
