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The undivided self : selected stories / Will Self ; introduction by Rick Moody.

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Bloomsbury USA, c2010.

England -- Fiction.

xi, 461 p. ; 25 cm.

The rock of crack as big as the Ritz -- Flytopia -- Caring, sharing -- Tough, tough toys for tough, tough boys -- Design faults in the Volvo 760 Turbo : a manual -- The Nonce prize -- Conversations with Ord -- The five-swing walk -- Scale -- Chest -- Grey area -- The North London book of the dead -- Ward 9 -- Understanding the ur-bororo -- The quantity theory of insanity -- Birdy num num -- The minor character.

"These stories, drawn from The Quantity Theory of Insanity, Gray Area, Tough, Tough Toys for Tough, Tough Boys, Dr. Mukti and Other Tales of Woe, and Liver-plus one story never before published-give us unexpected comic twists, masterful language, and the ordinary colored by the absurd: a man who finds his mother walking in a London suburb ten months after her death; the odd nuances of a drab office worker's daily routine; and a send-up of the British elite that takes place after a carcinogenic fog blankets England. Compared favorably to Nabokov, Pynchon, Gaddis, Ballard, and DeLillo, Will Self is a bold satirist whose selected stories represent some of the best and most outrageous fiction of the last decade."--Publisher.

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