'Darkly angelic prose... a joy to read, with the final part in particular recalling David Foster Wallace at his best' Alex Preston, Observer________________________________Will's mother's hokey homily, Waste not, want not... hisses in...

Set against the AIDS epidemic of the eighties and nineties, Self's "Dorian" is a shameless reworking of the most significant myth of shamelessness, brilliantly evoking the decade in which it was fine to stare into the abyss, so long as...

Wie lebt man weiter, wenn das Todesurteil aufgehoben zu sein scheint? Die englische Witwe Joyce Beddoes leidet an Leberkrebs und fliegt mit ihrer alkoholsüchtigen Tochter in die Schweiz, um dort »in Würde« zu sterben. In letzter Minute...

Leberknödel von Self, Will

'Darkly angelic prose... a joy to read, with the final part in particular recalling David Foster Wallace at his best' Alex Preston, Observer ________________________________ Will's mother's hokey homily, Waste not, want not... hisses in...

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...

"Will Self brings the savage comic sensibility of social satire to warp speed. . . . Bizarre, inventive, dyspeptic, these postmodern fables end as fables should, with a pointed moral, a sting in the scorpion's tale".--"The Boston Globe"....

Available from Grove for the first time, Will Self's much-celebrated novel, dubbed by Sam Lipsyte "his satiric masterpiece . . . gripping, funny, and pleasurably intricate" von Self, Will

An unforgettable portrait of the human struggle with mortality, this novel revolves around an aging American woman dying from cancer in a London hospital. Sliding in and out of consciousness, she rails against everything through the lens...

May 4th, 1970. A week earlier President Nixon has ordered American ground forces into Cambodia to pursue the Vietcong. By the end of the day four students will be shot dead by the National Guards in the grounds of Kent State University....

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"Das Bibel Projekt. Die Offenbarung des Johannes" mit einer Einleitung von Will Self ist eine moderne Betrachtung und Interpretation des letzten Buches der Bibel, der Offenbarung des Johannes. In diesem Werk wird die apokalyptische...