My idea of fun
"Critics largely admired Self's audacious, darkly satirical debut for its visceral imagination and stylistic bravado, while some found its provocative grotesquerie self-indulgent and its nihilistic excess more shocking than genuinely profound."
When the young Ian Wharton first meets Mr Broadhurst, he is completely unaware of the influence he will come to exert over his life as 'The Fat Controller' - a constant companion and confidant and also the obese, erudite manifestation of Ian's mental illness. As Ian's idea of fun becomes increasingly extreme, the reader is taken to a place where morality is eroded by the dull grind of modernity and everything becomes admissable.
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- My Idea of FunPublished · 2008Publisher · Bloomsbury PublishingLang · ENGISBN · 9780747587989
My Idea of FunPublished · 1993Publisher · BloomsburyPages · 309Lang · ENGISBN · 9780747515913
My Idea of FunPublished · September 28, 2005Publisher · Grove PressPages · 320Lang · ENGISBN · 9780802142139
My idea of funPublished · 1995Publisher · Vintage BooksPages · 309Lang · ENGISBN · 0679750932
My idea of funPublished · 1994Publisher · Atlantic Monthly PressPages · 309Lang · ENGISBN · 0871135655
My idea of funPublished · 1994Publisher · PenguinPages · 309Lang · ENGISBN · 0140234004
My Idea of FunPublished · June 10, 1994Publisher · Penguin Books LtdPages · 320ISBN · 9780140234008
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