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Shark
Will Self
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Description for Shark
Paperback. Shark turns upon an actual incident in WWII - mentioned in the film Jaws - when the ship which had delivered the fissile material to the south Pacific to be dropped on Hiroshima was subsequently sunk by a Japanese submarine with the loss of 900 men, including 200 killed in the largest shark attack ever recorded. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 129 x 32. Weight in Grams: 334.
Shark turns upon an actual incident in WWII - mentioned in the film Jaws - when the ship which had delivered the fissile material to the south Pacific to be dropped on Hiroshima was subsequently sunk by a Japanese submarine with the loss of 900 men, including 200 killed in the largest shark attack ever recorded.
When the Creep, an American resident in the 1970s at the therapeutic community in north London supervised by maverick psychiatrist Zack Busner, starts to tell rambling stories of thrashing about in the water while under attack from sharks, Busner has to decide ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
480
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780141046389
SKU
V9780141046389
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-1
About Will Self
Will Self is the author of many novels and books of non-fiction, 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, Umbrella, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2012, and Shark. His most ... Read more
Reviews for Shark
An exciting, mesmerizing, wonderfully disturbing book. Go with it and it will suck you under
Daily Telegraph
Breathtaking and dazzling. An exhilarating tour-de-force ... immersing the reader in a trippy Odyssey
Daily Mail
Intellectually dazzling and emotionally frazzling. Self is the most daring and delightful novelist of his generation
Guardian
Will challenge and disturb, ... Read more
Daily Telegraph
Breathtaking and dazzling. An exhilarating tour-de-force ... immersing the reader in a trippy Odyssey
Daily Mail
Intellectually dazzling and emotionally frazzling. Self is the most daring and delightful novelist of his generation
Guardian
Will challenge and disturb, ... Read more