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The Butt: Reissued
Will Self
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Description for The Butt: Reissued
Paperback. Will Self's uncomfortable and disturbing allegory of the liberal West in the post-9/11 era Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 197 x 24. Weight in Grams: 250. 368 pages. Will Self's uncomfortable and disturbing allegory of the liberal West in the post-9/11 era. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 154 x 197 x 24. Weight: 252.
When Tom Brodzinski finally decides to give up smoking during a family holiday in a weird, unnamed land, a moment's inattention becomes his undoing. Flipping the butt of his last cigarette off the balcony of the holiday apartment, it lands on the head of the elderly Reggie Lincoln, and burns him. Despite Brodzinski's liberal attitudes and good intentions, the local authorities treat his action as an assault. Soon the full weight of the courts and tribal custom is brought to bear. What follows is a journey through a fantastically distorted world, a country that is part Australia, part Iraq and ... Read more
When Tom Brodzinski finally decides to give up smoking during a family holiday in a weird, unnamed land, a moment's inattention becomes his undoing. Flipping the butt of his last cigarette off the balcony of the holiday apartment, it lands on the head of the elderly Reggie Lincoln, and burns him. Despite Brodzinski's liberal attitudes and good intentions, the local authorities treat his action as an assault. Soon the full weight of the courts and tribal custom is brought to bear. What follows is a journey through a fantastically distorted world, a country that is part Australia, part Iraq and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
368
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781408827383
SKU
V9781408827383
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About Will Self
Will Self is the author of The Quantity Theory of Insanity, shortlisted for the 1992 John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize and winner of the 1993 Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, and How the Dead Live, which was shortlisted for the Whitbread Novel of the Year 2002. His last book, Psychogeography, was a collection of his columns for the INDEPENDENT. He lives ... Read more
Reviews for The Butt: Reissued
`The Butt is Self's most gripping and disturbing novel in years'
Harper's Bazaar
`With a flick of a cigarette Will Self performs literary acrobatics few other writers can even dream of'
Scotland on Sunday
`A writer at the height of his immeasurable powers'
Yorkshire Post
`Self writes here with an adroit impersonation of coarse ... Read more
Harper's Bazaar
`With a flick of a cigarette Will Self performs literary acrobatics few other writers can even dream of'
Scotland on Sunday
`A writer at the height of his immeasurable powers'
Yorkshire Post
`Self writes here with an adroit impersonation of coarse ... Read more