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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”
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“Two stories based on one man, this book is long and depressing and then sort of softly gut-punches you at the end. One half of the chapters are devoted to Dave Rudman, a London cabbie who has very little ambition and few hierarchical needs until he accidentally fathers a son after a one-night stand. Apathy gives way to bemused ambivalence which slowly evolves into parental love at best and narcissistic obsession at worst, before spiraling into manic depression, which is where the storylines start to converge. About halfway through I wondered if the future chapters were a psychotic episode that a character was having in the past, instead of an actual tale of a far future society. My interpretation fluctuated several times throughout the rest of the book, but the future chapters were what kept my interest when the modern ones hit their stretch of tedium; if you pick up this book, flip first to the glossary in the back, and spend some time learning the Mokni language of Ham, or you'll be utterly lost. The linguistic creativity was definitely my favorite part of the book, followed by figuring out the obscure genesis of many of the words and phrases. Three stars is a little harsh for a rating, but since I can't separate actual plot & characters from literary devices, it ranks a three - I wouldn't recommend it to anyone whose literary tastes didn't occasionally veer into the somewhat bizarre.”
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About Will Self
Will Self is the author of many novels and books of nonfiction, including Great Apes; How the Dead Live, which was shortlisted for the Whitbread Novel of the Year; The Butt, winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction; Umbrella, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize; Shark; and Phone. He lives in South London.
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