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The Sweet Smell of Psychosis

Author : Will Self
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 16,42 MB
Release : 2012-09-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 140883846X

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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.

The Sweet Smell of Psychosis

Author : Will Self
Publisher :
Page : 89 pages
File Size : 38,30 MB
Release : 1999-11-01
Category :
ISBN : 9780788167362

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In this brief and humorous satire, a man trapped in the bosom of the most venal media clique in London is losing his heart to a magazine columnist, about to lose his job at a magazine, losing his mind to cocaine, and losing his soul to a newspaper columnist, the kingpin of media scandal.

The Sweet Smell of Honeysuckle

Author : Alice Heaver
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 18,74 MB
Release : 2004-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780595325689

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Sage, a nurse at a psychiatric hospital, is concerned when a fellow nurse is discharged as a patient soon after her mental breakdown, then learns of her marriage to a former patient. Ellen, in her psychotic mind, is extremely jealous of Sage and when Sage falls in love with a co-worker, Bob, difficult times lay in store. Is this relationship meant to be, or does Ellen have evil plans for them?

Understanding Will Self

Author : M. Hunter Hayes
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 36,38 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781570036750

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Understanding Will Self introduces readers to the satire and expressive ingenuity of a British writer who has garnered an array of awards since the 1991 publication of his first short story collection, The Quantity Theory of Sanity. In this guide to the well-received but largely unstudied writer, M. Hunter Hayes examines the key themes, narrative strategies, and cultural commentaries that characterize Self's work. Through close textual analyses, Hayes guides readers through the alternative universe of Self's writing and maps the interplay between his forays into journalism and fiction. Marked by their combination of seemingly improbable events and quotidian details, Self's novels, novellas, and short stories examine contemporary English life through a mode of writing that he has aptly termed dirty magical realism. Hayes shows how recurring characters have evolved through successive works and in relation with their environments.

Junk Mail

Author : Will Self
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 38,12 MB
Release : 2012-09-11
Category : Art
ISBN : 1408838508

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Everything that makes Will Self's fiction so arresting and original is in evidence here in this collection of his best articles, book reviews and interviews from the Observer, the Guardian, the Independent, the Evening Standard and many more. Whether describing penis operations, narcotics or merely pondering the nature of slacking, these pieces are as witty and acerbic as one would expect from one of our foremost contemporary satirists.

Will Self and Contemporary British Society

Author : G. Matthews
Publisher : Springer
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 18,33 MB
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1137486562

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This stimulating and comprehensive study of Will Self's work spans his entire career and offers insightful readings of all his fictional and non-fictional work up to and including his Booker prize nominated novel Umbrella.

The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English

Author : Tom Dalzell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 15065 pages
File Size : 30,38 MB
Release : 2015-06-26
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1317372514

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Booklist Top of the List Reference Source The heir and successor to Eric Partridge's brilliant magnum opus, The Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, this two-volume New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English is the definitive record of post WWII slang. Containing over 60,000 entries, this new edition of the authoritative work on slang details the slang and unconventional English of the English-speaking world since 1945, and through the first decade of the new millennium, with the same thorough, intense, and lively scholarship that characterized Partridge's own work. Unique, exciting and, at times, hilariously shocking, key features include: unprecedented coverage of World English, with equal prominence given to American and British English slang, and entries included from Australia, New Zealand, Canada, India, South Africa, Ireland, and the Caribbean emphasis on post-World War II slang and unconventional English published sources given for each entry, often including an early or significant example of the term’s use in print. hundreds of thousands of citations from popular literature, newspapers, magazines, movies, and songs illustrating usage of the headwords dating information for each headword in the tradition of Partridge, commentary on the term’s origins and meaning New to this edition: A new preface noting slang trends of the last five years Over 1,000 new entries from the US, UK and Australia New terms from the language of social networking Many entries now revised to include new dating, new citations from written sources and new glosses The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English is a spectacular resource infused with humour and learning – it’s rude, it’s delightful, and it’s a prize for anyone with a love of language.

The 1990s: A Decade of Contemporary British Fiction

Author : Nick Hubble
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 22,53 MB
Release : 2015-05-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1474242413

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How did social, cultural and political events in Britain during the 1990s shape contemporary British Fiction? From the fall of the Berlin Wall to the turn of the millennium, the 1990s witnessed a realignment of global politics. Against the changing international scene, this volume uses events abroad and in Britain to examine and explain the changes taking place in British fiction, including: the celebration of national identities, fuelled by the move toward political devolution in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales; the literary optimism in urban ethnic fictions written by a new generation of authors, born and raised in Britain; the popularity of neo-Victorian fiction. Critical surveys are balanced by in-depth readings of work by the authors who defined the decade, including A.S. Byatt, Hanif Kureishi, Will Self, Caryl Phillips and Irvine Welsh: an approach that illustrates exactly how their key themes and concerns fit within the social and political circumstances of the decade.

Umbrella

Author : Will Self
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 25,12 MB
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1408831678

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Recently having abandoned his R.D. Laing-influenced experiment in running a therapeutic community -- the so-called Concept House in Willesden -- maverick psychiatrist Zack Busner arrives at Friern Hospital, a vast Victorian mental asylum in North London, under a professional and marital cloud. He has every intention of avoiding controversy, but then he encounters Audrey Death, a working-class girl from Fulham born in 1890 who has been immured in Friern for decades. A socialist, a feminist and a munitions worker at the Woolwich Arsenal, Audrey fell victim to the encephalitis lethargica sleeping sickness epidemic at the end of the First World War and has been in a coma ever since. Realising that Audrey is just one of a number of post-encephalitics scattered throughout the asylum, Busner becomes involved in an attempt to bring them back to life -- with wholly unforeseen consequences.

The Contemporary British Novel

Author : Philip Tew
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 10,25 MB
Release : 2007-04-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1441114491

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The Contemporary British Novel is a lively, wide-ranging guide to the key issues in writing in Britain since the mid-1970s, including social change, gender, sexuality, class, history and ethnicity. Designed to address problems faced by students in the exciting but challenging field of contemporary fiction, the text is organised to focus on major topics including: - the changing nature of British identity; - the representation of urban identity and urban spaces; - class issues including the rise and fall of the middle class; - multiracial identity and hybridity. The second edition includes a new introduction and a new chapter on fiction since the millennium focusing on a post 9/11 aesthetic. Every chapter has been revised for the new edition and now includes an initial overview and recommended reading to offer guidance on further study. Includes readings of novels by: Martin Amis, Pat Barker, A. S. Byatt, Jonathan Coe, Hanif Kureishi, Salman Rushdie,Will Self, Zadie Smith, Jeanette Winterson among others.