The Sweet Smell of Psychosis: reissued - Brossura

Self, Will

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1408827395 ISBN 13: 9781408827390

Casa editrice: Bloomsbury Paperbacks, 2011

Riassunto

Thrust into the seedy underworld of hack reporters and Soho drinking dens, young Richard Hermes is skidding down a cocaine slope of self-destruction in pursuit of the impossibly beautiful socialite-cum-columnist Ursula Bentley. But between Richard and his object of desire stands his omnipresent nemesis, the lubricious Bell, doyen of late night radio shows, provider of drugs and gossip, and ringmaster of the Sealink Club.

Erudite and witty as ever, this hilarious novella is vintage Self at his acerbic, incisive best, brilliantly illustrated by Martin Rowson's sharp, dark, satirical pen.

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Recensione:

A tour de force (Time Out)

Self's sexually explicit fable bubbles with filth and bile, and Martin Rowson's splendid illustrations always rise to the occasion ...Spot-on (Independent on Sunday)

Self is the master of the art of a telling sentence, and his portrait is instantly recognisable from his swaggering prose ... Self and Rowson take the reader into the realm of Burroughs's "abysmal depths", exhibiting all the alchemic possibilities of narcotics (Observer)

This sheer love of language, the belief that the high of literature is to be found by snorting words off a Webster's, sets Self up at the bar with great linguistic junkies like T.C. Boyle (Los Angeles Times)

L'autore:

Will Self is the author of The Quantity Theory of Insanity, winner of the 1993 Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, Grey Area, Cock & Bull, My Idea of Fun, The Sweet Smell of Psychosis, Great Apes, Tough, Tough Toys for Tough, Tough Boys, Dorian, How the Dead Live, which was shortlisted for the Whitbread Novel of the Year 2002, and The Book of Dave. He lives in London.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Bloomsbury Paperbacks
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1408827395
• ISBN 13: 9781408827390
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 92