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Self, Will

 
9780802142139: My Idea of Fun
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ISBN 10: 0802142133 ISBN 13: 9780802142139
Editorial: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press, 2005

Sinopsis

An international financier and his young apprentice form the center of a wickedly acute story of capitalism run amuck, in a society in which consumerism, violence, and psychosis are the norm and the human soul becomes the ultimate product. Reprint.

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Will Self has established himself as one of the most brilliant, daring, and inventive writers of his generation. My Idea of Fun is Will Self's highly acclaimed first novel. The story of a devilishly clever international financier/marketing wizard and his young apprentice, My Idea of Fun is both a frighteningly dark subterranean exploration of capitalism run rampant and a wickedly sharp, technically acute display of linguistic pyrotechnics that glows with pure white-hot brilliance. Ian Wharton is a very ordinary young man until he is taken under the wing of a gentleman known variously as Mr. Broadhurst, Samuel Northcliff, and finally and simply the Fat Controller. Loudmouthed, impeccably tailored, and a fount of bombastic erudition, the Fat Controller initiates Ian into the dark secrets of his arts -- of marketing, money, and the human psyche -- and takes Ian, and the reader, on a wild voyage around the edges of reality. As we careen into the twenty-first century, Self perfectly captures the zeitgeist of our times: money is the only common language; consumerism, violence, and psychosis (drug-induced and otherwise) prevail; and the human soul has become the ultimate product.

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Editorial
Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
Año de publicación
2005
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0802142133
ISBN 13 
9780802142139
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
320
Contacto del fabricante
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Otras ediciones populares con el mismo título

9781408827420: My Idea of Fun: Reissued

Edición Destacada

ISBN 10:  1408827425 ISBN 13:  9781408827420
Editorial: Bloomsbury Paperbacks, 2011
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