Feeding Frenzy - Will Self

Name: Feeding Frenzy
Author: Will Self
ISBN: 9780670889952

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Feeding Frenzy - Booker nominee Will Self's dazzling collection of journalism and writing. Self often writes non-fiction as though it were fiction, topping off what we know as reality with the cream of his surreality . ( Guardian ). During the turbulent years of 1995-2000, Will Self surfed the great wave of olive oil which nearly swept British metropolitan culture away, and produced a series of restaurant reviews for The Observer , whose coruscating criticality led to a cabal of restaurateurs plotting his contract killing. In essays to accompany the work of admired artists such as Marc Quinn, feature articles on rock music and remote places, reviews of cultural phenomena as diverse as voyeuristic television and the Queen Mother, Will Self has produced what can only be described as a cachinnating cacophony of wilful provocation. From the Booker-shortlisted author of Umbrella , this virtuoso collection, which also includes interviews and musings on Salman Rushdie, Hunter S. Thompson as well as a quasi-autobiogr...

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