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• Auction House:
  Webb's
• Sale Name:
  Improbable Gifts for Impossible People
• Sale Date:
  18 Oct 2012 ~ 7pm (NZ time)
• Lot #:
  31
• Lot Description:
  The First Editions
  Will Self book x 2, both first editions. How the Dead Live (2000) is signed by the Author. Over the past two decades Will Self has established himself as one of the most entertaining and satirical writers of contemporary British literature. Lauded for his dazzling wordplay and loathed for being deliberately challenging, these traits are exemplified in the two novellas that comprise Cock and Bull (1992) and his later work, How the Dead Live (2000). In these tales Self invents lavishly grotesque worlds. A man wakes up to find a vagina behind his left knee and London is inhabited by chain smoking dead people who are haunted by their aborted fetus’s. While these shockingly comic aspects offer the author’s critique on cultural conventions, it’s his idiosyncratic prose that gives the works their potency. Ben Ashley. Book Specialist, Bethunes at Webb's.
• Estimate:
  NZ$50 - 100
• Realised Price:
  *****
  

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• Category:
  Books & Manuscripts

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