The Butt
Author(s): Will Self
When Tom Brodzinski finally decides to give up smoking during a family holiday in a weird, unnamed land, a moment's inattention becomes his undoing. Flipping the butt of his last cigarette off the balcony of the holiday apartment, it lands on the head of the elderly Reggie Lincoln, and burns him. Despite Brodzinski's liberal attitudes and good intentions, the local authorities treat his action as an assault. Soon the full weight of the courts and tribal custom is brought to bear. What follows is a journey through a fantastically distorted world, a country that is part Australia, part Iraq and entirely the heart of distinctively modern darkness.
Product Information
Will Self's last novel, The Book of Dave, sold 88,000 copies through Bookscan Winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction One of the most original novelists of his generation whose fiction is becoming more accessible
Will Self is the author of The Quantity Theory of Insanity, shortlisted for the 1992 John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize and winner of the 1993 Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, and How the Dead Live, which was shortlisted for the Whitbread Novel of the Year 2002. His last book, Psychogeography, was a collection of his columns for the INDEPENDENT. He lives in London.
General Fields
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- : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- : 04 May 2009
- : 198mm X 129mm X 22mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : Will Self
- : Paperback
- : 1
- : 823.914
- : 368