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Self, Will.
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Authors, English -- 20th century -- Biography.
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Self, Will.
Self, Will -- Drug use.
Authors, English -- 20th century -- Biography.
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Will
/
Will
Self
.
by
Self
,
Will
.
Grove Press, 2020.
Call #:
921 S465w
Subjects
Self
,
Will
--
Drug
use
.
Authors, English
--
20th century
--
Biography.
ISBN:
9780802128461 (hc.)
Edition:
1st Grove Atlantic hardcover ed.
Description:
389 p. ; 22 cm.
Notes:
"First published in Great Britain in 2019 by Penguin Random House UK"--Title-page verso.
Summary:
"
Will
Self
is one of Britain's best-known contemporary writers, a public intellectual whose novels have been shortlisted for the Booker Prize and translated into over twenty languages. In
Will
, his first ever memoir, he turns his attention fully to his own
self
, and in particular his addictions as a young man. An addiction memoir like no other,
Will
echoes the best of
Self
's psychedelic fiction, and is one of the most eloquent depictions of the allure of hard drugs ever written.
Will
spins the reader from
Self
's childhood in a North London suburb to his mind-expanding education at Oxford, to a Burroughsian trip to Morocco, an outback vision in Australia, and, finally, a surreal turn in rehab.
Self
uses drugs from a young age, hiding acid, amphetamine, and weed in a tin of Dilly Duckling cough pastilles. His university years are fueled with books but also with "heroin, hashish, cocaine, grass, and amphetamine."
Self
smokes dope in suburbia, buys opium in India, and even injects methamphetamine on a camping trip in Wales's Black Mountains. And his extreme highs inevitably give way to deep lows, an enthralling cycle that persists and repeats. One of the best minds of our generation, whose mordant humor and vivid images shine in this technicolor portrait of family, art, and self-expression,
Self
has written in
Will
both a künstlerroman and confessional, a tale of excess and degradation, a karmic cycle that leads back to the author's own lack of...
will
"--From publisher.
Genre:
Autobiographies.
Memoirs.
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