The Quantity Theory of Morality
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Will Self’s pen remains dipped in vitriol and elegance as ever. The disaffected, middle-class, middle-aged urbanites that populate the novel seem helpless to stop the decay of their intimate, self-conscious social circle. And yet, as Self’s skewering (and self-skewering) grows ever more wildly imaginative, targeting faith, death, money, queerness, Jewishness and nearly every piece of our social fabric’s connective tissue, it becomes all too clear that the decay cannot simply be cut out – their lives are rotten to their core. With recurring – if defeated – appearances from now-canonical characters like Zack Busner, this new work shows Self to be both a master of satire and slapstick humour and a sublime and thoughtful critic of the alienation of modern life.
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This dark yet hilariously satirical state-of-an-era novel sees Will Self’s middle-class, middle-English characters apparently trapped in a timeless go-round of polite chitchat in dinner parties that refract like a hall of mirrors, until one day someone says something to the effect of, ‘This way to the gas chamber, please, ladies and gentlemen.’ The Quantity Theory of Morality finally solves the equation of time and money that dominates our lives, in a way that is simultaneously deranging, destabilizing and hilarious, showing Self to be both a master of satire and slapstick humour and a sublime and thoughtful critic of the alienation of modern life. With The Quantity Theory of Morality, Self provides the sequel to his award-winning debut of 35 years ago, The Quantity Theory of Insanity. That literary psycho-surgery proved there wasn’t enough sanity to go around – now he’s established what many of us fear to be the absolute truth: there isn’t enough good to go around, either.
| Dimensions | 23.4 × 15.6 cm |
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| Cover | Hardback |
| Pages | 368 |
| Language | English |
| Edition | Short stories |
| Dewey | 823.92 (edition:23) |
| Readership | General – Trade / Code: K |
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