Will, Will Self
Will, Will Self
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Will
A Memoir

Author: Will Self

Narrator: Will Self

Unabridged: 11 hr 31 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 01/14/2020


Synopsis

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. One of the best minds of our generation, whose mordant humor and vivid images shine in this technicolor portrait of family, art, and self-expression, Self has written in Will both a kunstlerroman and confessional, a tale of excess and degradation, a karmic cycle that leads back to the author's own lack of . . . will.

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Reviews

Goodreads review by MJ

For over twenty years, eminent novelist and professor of contemporary thought Will Self was riding the horse with the vigour of a cowpoke traversing the high plains. This anti-memoir spans twelve years in the young artist’s life, panning in on particularly wild escapades and episodes of debauchery t......more

Goodreads review by Paul

I've always been a big fan of Will Self and this book did not disappoint. I think he managed to create an autobiography that perfectly reflects himself; strange, somewhat morbid, and incredibly clever. Furthermore, this book contains the best writing I have come across in a long time, especially fro......more

Goodreads review by Glen

I won this book in a goodreads drawing. An addiction memoir, this by a British writer. He has a privileged life while becoming addicted to almost every substance under the sun. He describes the horrors of addiction well, but I never felt sorry for him.......more

disclaimer: didn’t make it past page 150. each section is around 2 - 5 pages in length, composed of a patchwork of i) impressionistic description, stream of consciousness, memories, sensations, ii) clichés, reported speech, memories, received wisdom and similar. all those belonging to the latter cat......more