Will Self
British novelist and essayist whose extravagant satirical fiction attacks modern Britain with psychogeographic intensity. Umbrella was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. His prose is deliberately abrasive and allusive.
Works
- My Idea of FunYoung man recounts morally troubling adolescence with a charismatic older mentor
- Great ApesMan wakes transformed into an ape; surreal exploration of social identity
- How the Dead LiveWoman observes London's underworld of the homeless after her own death
- UmbrellaStream-of-consciousness narrative tracking consciousness across decades of British life
- SharkViolent man on a bus becomes obsessed with fellow passenger's life