Synopsis
About Will Self
See more books from this AuthorThis is Self's first book, an interconnected collection of stories published in England in 1991 but held back in the US until the moment Self attained trans-Atlantic culthood.
| Read Full Review of The Quantity Theory of InsanityAs in last year's My Idea of Fun, Self's parodic style here hinges on flat, gullible, slightly ridiculous narrators, who serve both as picaresque vehicles for Self's sardonic critiques of English cultural life and filters for his manic, erudite prose.
| Read Full Review of The Quantity Theory of InsanityBritish satirist Self presents six stories mixing the grotesque with the cerebral.
| Read Full Review of The Quantity Theory of InsanityTHE QUANTITY THEORY OF INSANITY Will Self (Atlantic Monthly Press, $21) British writer Will Self made his name in the early '90s through his impish novels Cock and Bull and My Idea of Fun.
Feb 17 1995 | Read Full Review of The Quantity Theory of InsanityAn aggregated and normalized score based on 14 user ratings from iDreamBooks & iTunes