My idea of fun
"Critics largely admired Self's dark wit and linguistic bravado but found the novel's transgressive excess and deliberately repellent protagonist more exhausting than illuminating, making it a divisive debut."
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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