Book description
The fictional world of Will Self is unlike any
other. In The Quantity Theory of Insanity, we learn, amongst
other things, the dark and terrible secret of Ward 9, why you
are right to think that London is full of dead people and that each
and every human being is caught up in a colossal balancing act
between the sane and the insane ... The Quantity Theory of
Insanity is acerbic, satirical, hilarious and, most of all,
utterly unique in imaginative vision.
â  Self savages any human institution or being that smacks of
ponderosity. And he writes like a devil'
Will Self is the author of four collections of short stories (the
first of which, The Quantity Theory of Insanity, won the 1992
Geoffrey Faber Memorial Award), five novels (of which How the
Dead Live was shortlisted for the Whitbread Novel of the Year
in 2002), and four non-fiction works. He is a regular broadcaster on
television and radio and as a journalist a contributor to a plethora
of publications. He lives in London with his wife and four
children.
