Will

By: Will Self

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Paperback | 5 November 2020 | Edition Number 1

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400 Pages

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2.3 x 12.9 x 19.6

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An intense and anarchic memoir of addiction from one of Britain's most original writers

Will's mother's hokey homily, Waste not, want not... hisses in his ears as he oscillates furiously on the spot, havering on the threshold between the bedroom and the dying one... all the while cradling the plastic leech of the syringe in the crook of his arm. Oscillating furiously, and, as he presses the plunger home a touch more... and more, he hears it again and again- Waaaste nooot, waaant nooot..! whooshing into and out of him, while the blackness wells up at the periphery of his vision, and his hackneyed heart begins to beat out weirdly arrhythmic drum fills - even hitting the occasional rim-shot on his resonating rib cage. He waits, paralysed, acutely conscious, that were he simply to press his thumb right home, it'll be a cartoonish death- That's all folks! as the aperture screws shut forever.

About the Author

Will Self is the author of The Quantity Theory of Insanity, winner of the 1993 Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, Grey Area, Cock & Bull, My Idea of Fun, The Sweet Smell of Psychosis, Great Apes, Tough, Tough Toys for Tough, Tough Boys, Dorian, How the Dead Live, which was shortlisted for the Whitbread Novel of the Year 2002, and The Book of Dave. He lives in London.

Industry Reviews

Darkly angelic prose... a joy to read, with the final part in particular recalling David Foster Wallace at his best
* Alex Preston, Observer *

Refreshing . . . Self is never happier than when frolicking in the hinterland between sincerity and performative, winking hyperbole
* TLS *

One of Britain's most inspired writers offers a no-holds-barred tale of his fascinating life. Spectacular . . . Self delivers a hallucinatory, confessional version of his life
* Kirkus *

Self's writing has the same technicolour velocity, malign comedy as his best novels
* Claire Allfree, Evening Standard *

Who else is writing with this much freedom and verve right now?
* Metro *

One of the most significant literary works of our century
* New Statesman on Phone *

Intellectually dazzling and emotionally frazzling
* Guardian on Shark *

Unstoppably entertaining
* The Times on Umbrella *

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