Liver A Fictional Organ with a Surface Anatomy of Four Lobes |
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Author:
| Self, Will |
ISBN: | 978-0-670-88997-6 |
Publication Date: | Oct 2008 |
Publisher: | Penguin Books, Limited
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Imprint: | Viking |
Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | AUD $49.95 |
Book Description:
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Ah! Val Carmichael's nose - a treatise could have been written on it; indeed it looked as if an unseen hand had begun to do exactly that - poking with a steely nib at its sub-surface blood vessels and pricking them into the rased purplish calligraphy of spider anginoma, a definitive statement that the Plantation Club's owner was already in the early stages of cirrhosis.
These remarkable new pieces from Will Self each feature the largest of our internal organs- the...
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Ah! Val Carmichael's nose - a treatise could have been written on it; indeed it looked as if an unseen hand had begun to do exactly that - poking with a steely nib at its sub-surface blood vessels and pricking them into the rased purplish calligraphy of spider anginoma, a definitive statement that the Plantation Club's owner was already in the early stages of cirrhosis.
These remarkable new pieces from Will Self each feature the largest of our internal organs- the liver, in varying states of disease and decay. In 'Foie Humane' we go inside a Soho drinking club, the denizens of which live in a highly stylised yet emotionally dead state of excess. 'Promethus' tells the story of a dazzlingly successful advertising copywriter who can sell anything to anyone at any time. But things go wrong when he meets Zeus, a bigshot entrepreneur with a beautiful and manipulative wife. Tony Phillips's subterrainean Kensington flat is the setting for 'Birdy Num Num', where obsessives spend their days in a crepscular realm of cocaine and heroin. Finally, in 'Leberknodel', a terminal liver cancer patient travels to Zurich to commit assisted suicide. When she arrives, however, the cancer mysteriously goes into remission.