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Item Details
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WALKING TO HOLLYWOOD
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| By: |
Will Self |
| Format: |
Electronic book text |
| List price:
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£10.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1408837730 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781408837733 |
| Publisher: |
BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC |
| Pub. date: |
1 August, 2012 |
| Pages: |
448 |
| Synopsis: |
Walking to Hollywood is a dazzling triptych - obsessive, satirical, elegiac - in which Will Self burrows down through the intersections of time, place and psyche to explore some of our deepest fears and anxieties with characteristic fearlessness and jagged humour.`Very Little' is ostensibly the account of a curative journey to Canada and the USA, but in fact the record of a nematode's progress, as the worm of obsession - with scale and packing and the `stuff' of our lives - bores through a mind in extremesis. `Walking to Hollywood' is an extreme satire on celebrity, in which the narrator believes that everyone he meets is played by a famous actor, and that only he can solve the mystery of who murdered the movies. `Spurn Head' leads Self to a tormented sojourn with a madman whose house is sliding over the edge of a cliff, to a game of checkers with Death, and finally to an encounter with one of Swift's immortal Struldbruggs and a march through a tear in time itself. In Walking to Hollywood Will Self pushes memoir to the limits of invention. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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