Liver

These remarkable new pieces from Will Self each feature the largest of our internal organs: the liver, in varying states of disease and decay. In "Foie Humane" we go inside a Soho drinking club, the denizens of which live in a highly stylised yet emotionally dead state of excess. "Prometheus" tells the story of a dazzlingly successful advertising copywriter who can sell anything to anyone at any time. But things go wrong when he meets Zeus, a bigshot entrepreneur with a beautiful and manipulative wife. Tony Phillips' subterranean Kensington flat is the setting for "Birdy Num Num," where obsessives spend their days in a crepuscular realm of cocaine and heroin. Finally, in "Leberknodel', a terminal liver cancer patient travels to Zurich to commit assisted suicide. When she arrives, however, the cancer mysteriously goes into remission.

ISBN 0670889970   Pages 288 ISBN13 9780670889976 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 536 Publisher Penguin Books Ltd   Published in London Imprint Viking   Height (mm) 250 Format Hardback   Width (mm) 158 Publication date 04 Sep 2008   Spine width (mm) 30 DEWEY 823.914   Academic level General DEWEY edition DC22

		Foie Humain		1
		Leberknodel		61
		Prometheus		185
		Birdy Num Num		233

Praise for The Book of Dave: 'Self is...a master of demotic speech and -- rare breed this side of the Channel -- a novelist of ideas' Sunday Telegraph 'Epic and bitterly funny, this new stew of satire and linguistic wizardry is everything you'd expect from Britain's master of misanthropy' Arena 'Self has upped his ante from Monty Python to Jonathan Swift, and gone straight to brilliant hell' Harper's

Blackwell review:
A new collection of four short stories from a master wordsmith. Each story features a liver, in various states of decay and disease and moves from a Soho drinking club to a subterranean Kensington flat to Zurich.



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