Shark

Will Self author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd

Published:5th Mar '15

Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back

Shark cover

On a sunny spring day at the beginning of the 1970s psychiatrist Dr Zack Busner and his fellow residents at the Concept House therapeutic community in north London drop acid.

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.

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 whether they are schizoid delusions or some sort of reality.

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, exasperate and entertain * Independent *
Highly enjoyable, vividly, even profoundly imagined. Self is creating something rather grand * Sunday Times *

ISBN: 9780141046389

Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 29mm

Weight: 332g

480 pages