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OverviewShark attacks, LSD trips and traumatized RAF survivors- the eagerly awaited new novel from Booker-shortlisted Will Self Shark turns upon an actual incident in WWII - mentioned in the film Jaws - when the ship which had delivered the fissile material to the south Pacific to be dropped on Hiroshima was subsequently sunk by a Japanese submarine with the loss of 900 men, including 200 killed in the largest shark attack ever recorded. When the Creep, an American resident in the 1970s at the therapeutic community in north London supervised by maverick psychiatrist Zack Busner, starts to tell rambling stories of thrashing about in the water while under attack from sharks, Busner has to decide whether they are schizoid delusions or some sort of reality. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Will SelfPublisher: Penguin Books Ltd Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd Dimensions: Width: 12.90cm , Height: 2.90cm , Length: 19.80cm Weight: 0.332kg ISBN: 9780141046389ISBN 10: 0141046384 Pages: 480 Publication Date: 05 March 2015 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsReviewsAn exciting, mesmerizing, wonderfully disturbing book. Go with it and it will suck you under * Daily Telegraph * Breathtaking and dazzling. An exhilarating tour-de-force ... immersing the reader in a trippy Odyssey * Daily Mail * Intellectually dazzling and emotionally frazzling. Self is the most daring and delightful novelist of his generation * Guardian * Will challenge and disturb, exasperate and entertain * Independent * Highly enjoyable, vividly, even profoundly imagined. Self is creating something rather grand * Sunday Times * An exciting, mesmerizing, wonderfully disturbing book. Go with it and it will suck you under Daily Telegraph Breathtaking and dazzling. An exhilarating tour-de-force ... immersing the reader in a trippy Odyssey Daily Mail Intellectually dazzling and emotionally frazzling. Self is the most daring and delightful novelist of his generation Guardian Will challenge and disturb, exasperate and entertain Independent Highly enjoyable, vividly, even profoundly imagined. Self is creating something rather grand Sunday Times Author InformationWill Self is the author of many novels and books of non-fiction, including Great Apes, The Book of Dave, How the Dead Live, which was shortlisted for the Whitbread Novel of the Year 2002, The Butt, winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction 2008, Umbrella, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2012, and Shark. His most recent novel, Phone, was shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize. He lives in south London. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |