my idea of fun (ab1t)

will self

ISBN 10: 0140234004 / ISBN 13: 9780140234008

Published by Penguin, 1993

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: my idea of fun (ab1t)
• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication Date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0140234004
• ISBN 13: 9780140234008
• Binding: Soft cover
• Weight: 400 grams
• Seller catalogs:
  • Englische Bücher

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Synopsis

"High-energy, high-caloric prose. . . a wonderfully rich and wicked novel" ( The New York Times Book Review). Will Self's first novel, about a man selling his soul to the devil, is violent, hilarious, outrageous, and, above all, completely original.

From the Inside Flap

The story of a devilishly clever international financier/marketing wizard and his young apprentice, My Idea of Fun is both a frighteningly dark subterranean exploration of capitalism run rampant and a wickedly sharp, technically acute display of linguistic pyrotechnics that glows with pure white-hot brilliance.

Ian Wharton is a very ordinary young man until he is taken under the wing of a gentleman known variously as Mr. Broadhurst, Samuel Northcliff, and finally and conclusively simply as the Fat Controller, Loud-mouthed, impeccably tailored, a fount of bombastic erudition, the Fat Controller initiates Ian into the dark secrets of his arts -- of marketing, money, and the human psyche -- and takes Ian, and the reader, on a wild voyage around the edges of reality.