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Will: A Memoir

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. A portrait of the artist as a young addict, WILL is one of the most eloquent and unusual depictions of the allure of hard drugs ever written.

WILL 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.

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Will: A Memoir
by Will Self

  • Publication Date: January 19, 2021
  • Genres: Memoir, Nonfiction
  • Paperback: 400 pages
  • Publisher: Grove Press
  • ISBN-10: 0802158285
  • ISBN-13: 9780802158284