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Will Self

Biography

Will Self

Will Self is the author of many novels and books of nonfiction, including GREAT APES; THE BOOK OF DAVE; HOW THE DEAD LIVE, which was shortlisted for the Whitbread Novel of the Year 2002; THE BUTT, winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction 2008; and UMBRELLA, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2012. He lives in south London.

Will Self

Books by Will Self

by Will Self - Memoir, Nonfiction

Unflinching, intoxicating, heartfelt and propelled by an exceptional energy, WILL is the long-awaited memoir by Will Self, whose works have been shortlisted for the Booker Prize and translated into over 20 languages. It spins the reader from Self’s childhood in a quiet North London suburb to his mind-expanding education at Oxford, to a Burroughsian trip to Morocco, an outback vision in Australia, and, finally, a surreal turn in rehab. Echoing the great Modernist writers of the early 20th century in its psychedelic stream of consciousness, WILL is vividly imagistic and mordantly witty. It is both kunstlerroman and confessional, a tale of excess and degradation, a karmic cycle that leads back to the author’s own lack of...will.