Feeding Frenzy - Hardcover

Self, Will

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ISBN 10: 0670889954 ISBN 13: 9780670889952

Publisher: Viking, 2001

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FEEDING FRENZY, Will Self's third collection of journalism and selected writings takes us through the turbulent years 1995-2000. During this period Self surfed the great wave of olive oil which nearly swept British metropolitan culture away, and produced a series of restaurant reviews for The Observer, whose coruscating criticality led to a cabal of restaurateurs plotting his contract killing. In essays to accompany the work of admired artists such as Marc Quinn, feature articles on rock music and remote places, reviews of cultural phenomena as diverse as voyeuristic television and the Queen Mother, Self has produced what can only be described as a cachinnating cacophony of wilful provocation.

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Will Self's collection of journalism and selected writings has all the usual caustic edge and bitter wit that is his stock in trade. Feeding Frenzy is a collection that takes us through the turbulent years 1995 to 2000. Self's observations on the changing face of British culture even includes his series of restaurant reviews for The Observer, which had several restaurateurs eager for his abrupt exit from this life. But the subjects here are satisfyingly varied: from the Queen Mother through voyeuristic victim TV to the excesses of the rock music business (over which Self casts a singularly cold eye). A fascinating collection, guaranteed to tread on all the usual toes.

About the Author:

Will Self is the author of three short story collections, THE QUANTITY THEORY OF INSANITY, GREY AREA, and TOUGH TOUGH TOYS FOR TOUGH TOUGH BOYS; the novellas COCK AND BULL and a third novella THE SWEET SMELL OF PSYCHOSIS; and three novels MY IDEA OFFUN, GREAT APES and HOW THE DEAD LIVE. There have been two collections of journalism JUNK MAIL and SORE SITES and a collaboration with photographer David Gamble called PERFIDIOUS MAN.

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