| The Quantity Theory of Insanity Contributor(s): Self, Will (Author) |
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ISBN: 0679750940 ISBN-13: 9780679750949 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $17.10 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 1996 Annotation: What if there is only a limited amount of sanity in the world and the real reason people go mad is because "somebody has to? What if a mysterious tribe in the Amazon rainforest turn out to be the most boring people on the earth? What if the afterlife is nothing more than a London suburb, where the dead get new flats, new jobs, and their own telephone directory? These are the sort of truths that emerge in this collection of stories by one of England's most gifted writers. In The Quantity Theory of Insanity, Will Self tips over the banal surfaces of everyday existence to uncover the hideous, the hilarious, and the bizarre. Psychiatry, anthropology, theology--and literature--will never be the same. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 95045867 |
| Series: Vintage Contemporaries |
| Physical Information: 0.63" H x 5.24" W x 8.02" (0.57 lbs) 224 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: What if there is only a limited amount of sanity in the world and the real reason people go mad is because somebody has to? What if a mysterious tribe in the Amazon rainforest turn out to be the most boring people on the earth? What if the afterlife is nothing more than a London suburb, where the dead get new flats, new jobs, and their own telephone directory? These are the sort of truths that emerge in this collection of stories by one of England's most gifted writers. In The Quantity Theory of Insanity, Will Self tips over the banal surfaces of everyday existence to uncover the hideous, the hilarious, and the bizarre. Psychiatry, anthropology, theology--and literature--will never be the same. |