My Idea of Fun

Will Self

ISBN 10: 0140234004 / ISBN 13: 9780140234008

Published by Penguin, 1994

About this Item

ISBN 0140234004. Trade Paperback. Later Printing. Very Good Condition. Tight sound unmarked copy with minor rubs and creases to edges and corners of covers, some browning to edges of interior pages. Tight, sound, unmarked copy except for author's signature on title page, 'Signed by Author' sticker on front cover.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: My Idea of Fun
• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication Date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0140234004
• ISBN 13: 9780140234008
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: Later Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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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.