Dr Mukti and Other Tales of Woe

Informationen zum Autor 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 recent novel! Phone ! was shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize. He lives in south London. Klappentext 'As good as anything he has written ... one of Self's grisliest creations. There is no contemporary writer of fiction more perceptive about psychosis' Financial Times 'Self's enjoyable! intelligent collection of savage stories is splendidly satiric. The title story is a brilliant novella that tells of duelling psychiatrists who use mental patients as weapons. You laugh! but you also flinch' Scotsman 'The conceit of 'Dr Mukti' is as prescient as it is hilarious' Observer 'A destabilizing! funny! abundantly Gothic tour de force' Guardian 'Self is a preternaturally gifted writer. On almost every page of his fiction! one finds stupefyingly arresting images! viciously cutting remarks and hypodermic-sharp social observation' GQ 'Fine! meticulously disconcerting prose. Here! ordinary things look sinister! or at least grotesque; things that normally look horrible look ultra-horrible. Quietly! painstakingly scary' Evening Standard 'Hilarious! horrifically paranoid' Time Out 'Very funny. The flips and folds of Self's writing are as muscular and alarming as ever; there is simply no one else using language in such a manner in Britain today' Independent on Sunday 'Examining Mr Self's case notes! I recommend we up the dosage' Herald Zusammenfassung Tells of duelling psychiatrists who use mental patients as weapons.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Will Self, Self Will
• Edition: Penguin Books Uk
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Poche format B
• Sortie: 04.06.2009
• EAN: 9780141040196
• ISBN: 978-0-14-104019-6
• Pages: 272
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 195 mm x 16 mm
• Catégories: Littérature > Littérature (récits); Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Short Stories (single author), FICTION / Literary, Short Stories, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary