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William Woodard Self (born 26 September 1961) is an English writer, journalist, political commentator and broadcaster. [3][4][5] He has written 11 novels, five collections of shorter fiction, three novellas and nine collections of non-fiction writing.
Jun 2, 2023 · will-self.com is the official website for British novelist and journalist Will Self. The site is managed by Chris Hall and Chris Mitchell. If you want to get in touch, you can email us at info@will-self.com
He Read His Dying Mother’s Diaries, and Spun Them Into a Novel
In 1988, during the final days of their mother’s life, Will Self and his half brother ...
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6 days ago · Self has been drawing the bars of the cage in iridescent and crepuscular ways throughout his career. Here, he makes you weep at the confines. Elaine, by Will Self, Atlantic, £18.99.
4 days ago · Will Self wanted to build a monument to his mother, but his own shadow obscures it. Elaine by Will Self Grove Press £18.99/$27, 304 pages. Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café ...
5 days ago · Will Self’s recent, exceptional fictional trilogy, comprising Umbrella, Shark and Phone, displays a deep preoccupation with the ways that time, memory, family, psychosis and history interact.The novels are complex, multigenerational narratives, composed in a late modernist style as engaging as it is experimental. Formal playfulness, with the prose switching between its characters ...
Elaine - Will Self. The Booker-shortlisted author of Umbrella writes his most American novel yet — a brilliant portrait of a 1950s housewife, based on the life of the author’s mother, and an exploration of sexual freedom and sublimated desire.
Nov 11, 2014 · In his book Understanding Will Self, M. Hunter Hayes speculates that you began writing in earnest after your mother’s death in 1988 due to “a combination of grief and a sense of relief at no longer having to worry about obtaining her approval or scorn with [your] literary endeavours.”.
will-self.com is the official website for British novelist and journalist Will Self. The site is managed by Chris Hall and Chris Mitchell. If you want to get in touch, you can email us at info@will-self.com
Will Self was born in London in 1961. He graduated from Oxford University and began writing fiction, working as a cartoonist for the New Statesman and City Limits, a London listings magazine. Nominated in 1993 as one of Granta magazine's 20 'Best of Young British Novelists 2', his fiction includes the short-story collections: The Quantity ...
Sep 10, 2024 · Self’s later-career stylistic mannerisms are in full effect: the ellipses, the grotesque similes, the end-of-sentence bursts of italics. The timeline is jagged, and as Elaine’s mental state degenerates, dreams, hallucinations, fantasies, episodes of body horror and the smeared perception of the intoxicated jumble in the narrative.
