Shark - Hardcover

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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, and Umbrella, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2012. He lives in South London.

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Praise for Umbrella

'Miraculously captivating' Mark Lawson, Guardian
'A wonderful piece of sustained writing and passion' A.L. Kennedy, Scotsman
'Will Self finds his authentic voice as a writer and reclaims the high modernist mode as a natural and highly emotional form of narration. It's exhilarating' Jonathan Coe, Metro
'A work of unparalleled audacity ... fascinating and compulsive' John Boyne, Irish Times
'Daring, exuberant and richly dense... Will Self has carried the Modernist challenge into the twenty-first century, and worked a wonder' John Banville
'Unstoppably entertaining' The Times Books of the Year
'An exhilarating, addictive ride ... by the end you are filled with elation at the author's exuberant ambition and the swaggering way he carries it all off' Daily Mail Books of the Year
'His deepest and most rewarding novel to date' Guardian Books of the Year

Aus dem Klappentext

4 May 1970. A week earlier President Nixon has ordered American ground forces into Cambodia to pursue the Vietcong. By the end of the day four students will be lying in the grounds of Kent State University, shot dead by the National Guard. On the other side of the Atlantic, it's a brilliant sunny morning after an April of heavy rain, and at the Concept House therapeutic community he has set up in the London suburb of Willesden, maverick psychiatrist Dr Zack Busner has been tricked into joining a decidedly ill-advised LSD trip with several of its disturbed residents.

Five years later, sitting in a nearby cinema watching Steven Spielberg's Jaws with his young son, Busner realizes the true nature of the events that transpired on that dread-soaked day, when a survivor of the worst disaster in the US Navy's history - the sinking of the USS Indianapolis in the shark-infested south Pacific - came face-to-face with the British Royal Air Force observer on the Enola Gay's mission to Hiroshima .

Set a year before the action of his Booker-shortlisted Umbrella, Will Self's new novel continues its exploration of the complex relationship between human psychopathology and human technological progress; and like Umbrella, weaves together multiple narratives across several decades of the twentieth century to produce a fiendish tapestry depicting the state we're enmeshed in.