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Liver
A Fictional Organ with a Surface Anatomy of Four Lobes
Viking Adult
Hardback : 04 Sep 2008
£18.99
Synopsis
These remarkable new pieces from Will Self each feature the largest of our internal organs: the liver, in varying states of disease and decay. In 'Foie Humane' we go inside a Soho drinking club, the denizens of which live in a highly stylised yet emotionally dead state of excess. 'Prometheus' tells the story of a dazzlingly successful advertising copywriter who can sell anything to anyone at any time. But things go wrong when he meets Zeus, a bigshot entrepreneur with a beautiful and manipulative wife. Tony Phillips's subterranean Kensington flat is the setting for 'Birdy Num Num,' where obsessives spend their days in a crepuscular realm of cocaine and heroin. Finally, in 'Leberknodel', a terminal liver cancer patient travels to Zurich to commit assisted suicide. When she arrives, however, the cancer mysteriously goes into remission.
Product details
Format : Hardback
ISBN: 9780670889976
Size : 129 x 198mm
Pages : 288
Published : 04 Sep 2008
Publisher : Viking Adult
Liver
A Fictional Organ with a Surface Anatomy of Four Lobes
£18.99
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