Shark - Couverture rigide

Self, Will

3,59

373 �valuations de Goodreads

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0670918571 ISBN 13 : 9780670918577

Editeur : Viking, 2014

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Pr�sentation de l'�diteur :

Shark by Will Self - the eagerly anticipated new novel from the Booker-shortlisted author of Umbrella4 May 1970. A week earlier President Nixon has ordered American ground forces into Cambodia to pursue the Vietcong. By the end of the day four students will be lying in the grounds of Kent State University, shot dead by the National Guard. On the other side of the Atlantic, it's a brilliant sunny morning after an April of heavy rain, and at the Concept House therapeutic community he has set up in the London suburb of Willesden, maverick psychiatrist Dr Zack Busner has been tricked into joining a decidedly ill-advised LSD trip with several of its disturbed residents.Five years later, sitting in a nearby cinema watching Steven Spielberg's Jaws with his young son, Busner realizes the true nature of the events that transpired on that dread-soaked day, when a survivor of the worst disaster in the US Navy's history - the sinking of the USS Indianapolis in the shark-infested south Pacific - came face-to-face with the British Royal Air Force observer on the Enola Gay's mission to Hiroshima. Set a year before the action of his Booker-shortlisted Umbrella, Will Self's new novel continues its exploration of the complex relationship between human psychopathology and human technological progress; and like Umbrella, weaves together multiple narratives across several decades of the twentieth century to produce a fiendish tapestry depicting the state we're enmeshed in.Will 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, and Umbrella, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2012. He lives in South London.

Revue de presse :

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)

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