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Author Self, Will, author.

Title Will / Will Self.

Publication Info. New York : Grove Press, 2020.
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Location Call No. Status
 Colchester, Cragin Memorial Library - Adult Department  BIOGRAPHY SELF, WILL    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  823.914 SEL    Check Shelf
 Portland Public Library - Adult Department  BIOG SELF, WILL    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  B-SELF, W.    Check Shelf
Edition First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
Description 389 pages ; 22 cm
Summary "Will Self is one of Britain's best-known contemporary writers, a public intellectual whose novels have been shortlisted for the Booker Prize and translated into over twenty languages. In Will, his first ever memoir, he turns his attention fully to his own self, and in particular his addictions as a young man. An addiction memoir like no other, Will echoes the best of Self's psychedelic fiction, and is one of the most eloquent depictions of the allure of hard drugs ever written. Will spins the reader from Self's childhood in a North London suburb to his mind-expanding education at Oxford, to a Burroughsian trip to Morocco, an outback vision in Australia, and, finally, a surreal turn in rehab. Self uses drugs from a young age, hiding acid, amphetamine, and weed in a tin of Dilly Duckling cough pastilles. His university years are fueled with books but also with "heroin, hashish, cocaine, grass, and amphetamine." Self smokes dope in suburbia, buys opium in India, and even injects methamphetamine on a camping trip in Wales's Black Mountains. And his extreme highs inevitably give way to deep lows, an enthralling cycle that persists and repeats. Self has written in Will both a künstlerroman and confessional, a tale of excess and degradation, a karmic cycle that leads back to the author's own lack of . . . will"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Self, Will -- Drug use.
Authors, English -- 20th century -- Biography.
Self, Will. (OCoLC)fst00316809
Authors, English. (OCoLC)fst00821945
Drug abuse. (OCoLC)fst00898480
Self, Will 1961- (DE-588)120444526
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Autobiographies.
ISBN 9780802128461 (hardcover)
0802128467 (hardcover)
9780802146427 (electronic book)
Standard No. 40029602504
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