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Will Self is the author of many novels and books of non-fiction, including Great Apes, TheBook of Dave, How the Dead Live, which was shortlisted for the Whitbread Novel of the Year2002, The Butt, winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction 2008, andUmbrella, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2012. He lives in south London.
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 *
