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From “Britain’s reigning poet of the night” (Boston Globe), a long-awaited memoir of the artist as a young addict
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The Book of Dave
Available from Grove for the first time, Will Self’s much-celebrated novel, dubbed by Sam Lipsyte “his satiric masterpiece . . . gripping, funny, and…
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“Will Self’s brilliant new novel is an epic anti-tweet . . . the third part of a defiant, self-consciously modernist trilogy. . . staggeringly…
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“Self’s ultimate vision . . . is described in dazzling bursts of verbal pyrotechnics. . . . The language here is as rich as…
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A history of the entire twentieth-century’s technological searchlight refracted through the dark glass of a long-term mental institution.
keep readingTough, Tough Toys for Tough, Tough Boys
“Self’s satires combine humanity with ingenuity, manifesting a Swiftian obsession with scale, a Kafkaesque fixation with blind alleys and the narrative legerdemain of Jorge…
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“Brilliant, iconoclastic . . . one of Britain’s most original young writers.” –Time
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