The Quantity Theory of Insanity
Reissued
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published:19th Sep '11
Should be back in stock very soon
Will Self's mesmeric, inimitable debut short-story collection
This is the sparkling debut with which Will Self burst onto the literary scene. In it, we discover a superhumanly dull tribe of Amazonians, the terrible, seductive secret of Ward 9 and why you are right to think that London is full of dead people.
Full of his trademark jagged-edge satire and dark wit, The Quantity Theory of Insanity is acerbic, hilarious and, most of all, utterly unique in its imaginative vision.
'Very funny and very good, with that unmistakable sign of the genuine comic writer: absurdity unfurls logically from absurdity, but always as a mirror of what we are living in - and wish we didn't'
Doris Lessing
‘If a manic J. G. Ballard and a depressive David Lodge got together, they might produce something like The Quantity Theory of Insanity. But Will Self's world is all his own' -- Martin Amis
‘This hilarious black satire seethes with wonderfully weird ideas and bizarre images, written with a delicate precision' * Literary Review *
‘Will Self's The Quantity Theory of Insanity is as disturbing as satire ought to be and these days seldom is. Also it is unashamedly funny as well as chilling, presented with an air of cunning repose' * Guardian *
‘Self savages any human institution or being that smacks of ponderosity. And he writes like a devil' * Mail on Sunday *
'Very funny and very good, with that unmistakable sign of the genuine comic writer: absurdity unfurls logically from absurdity, but always as a mirror of what we are living in - and wish we didn't' -- Doris Lessing
ISBN: 9781408827451
Dimensions: 196mm x 128mm x 20mm
Weight: 200g
288 pages