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Title: THE QUANTITY THEORY OF INSANITY
By: Will Self
Format: Paperback

List price: £11.99


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ISBN 10: 0802121462
ISBN 13: 9780802121462
Publisher: GROVE PRESS / ATLANTIC MONTHLY PRESS
Pub. date: 23 May, 2013
Description: What is 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 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.
Synopsis: What is 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 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."
Publication: US
Imprint: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
Returns: Non-returnable
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