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Dr Mukti and Other Tales of Woe Will Self

Dr Mukti and Other Tales of Woe By Will Self

Dr Mukti and Other Tales of Woe by Will Self


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Summary

Tells of duelling psychiatrists who use mental patients as weapons.

Dr Mukti and Other Tales of Woe Summary

Dr Mukti and Other Tales of Woe by Will Self

Dr Mukti and Other Tales of Woe - an astonishing collection by Booker nominee Will Self

'Strange, disquieting, very funny and, frankly, rather frightening' GQ

As good as anything he has written ... one of Self's grisliest creations. There is no contemporary writer of fiction more perceptive about psychosis' Financial Times

'Self's enjoyable, intelligent collection of savage stories is splendidly satiric. The title story is a brilliant novella that tells of duelling psychiatrists who use mental patients as weapons. You laugh, but you also flinch' Scotsman

'The conceit of 'Dr Mukti' is as prescient as it is hilarious' Observer

'A destabilizing, funny, abundantly Gothic tour de force' Guardian

'Self is a preternaturally gifted writer. On almost every page of his fiction, one finds stupefyingly arresting images, viciously cutting remarks and hypodermic-sharp social observation' GQ

'Very funny. The flips and folds of Self's writing are as muscular and alarming as ever; there is simply no one else using language in such a manner in Britain today' Independent on Sunday

Will Self is the author of nine novels including Cock and Bull; My Idea of Fun; Great Apes; How the Dead Live; Dorian, an Imitation; The Book of Dave; The Butt; Walking to Hollywood and Umbrella, which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. He has written five collections of shorter fiction and three novellas: The Quantity Theory of Insanity; Grey Area; License to Hug; The Sweet Smell of Psychosis; Design Faults in the Volvo 760 Turbo; Tough, Tough Toys for Tough, Tough Boys; Dr. Mukti and Other Tales of Woe and Liver: A Fictional Organ with a Surface Anatomy of Four Lobes. Self has also compiled a number of nonfiction works, including The Undivided Self: Selected Stories; Junk Mail; Perfidious Man; Sore Sites; Feeding Frenzy; Psychogeography; Psycho Too and The Unbearable Lightness of Being a Prawn Cracker.

About Will Self

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, Umbrella, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2012, and Shark. His most recent novel, Phone, was shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize. He lives in south London.

Additional information

GOR002187878
9780141040196
014104019X
Dr Mukti and Other Tales of Woe by Will Self
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Penguin Books Ltd
20090604
272
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