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Grey Area

Will Self

Paperback | Pages: 287 pages

Rating: 3.66 | 922 Users | 35 Reviews

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Original Title:	Grey Area
ISBN:	0871136732 (ISBN13: 9780871136732)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Zack Busner

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A New York Times Notable Book of the Year, Grey Area demonstrates Will Self's razor-sharp wit in nine new stories that delve into the modern psyche with unsettling and darkly satiric results. "Inclusion®" tells the story of a doctor who is illegally testing a new antidepressant made from bee excrement. "A Short History of the English Novel" brings us face to face with a pompous publisher who is greeted at every turn by countless rejected authors. In "The End of the Relationship" a woman who has been left by her boyfriend provokes — "like some emotional Typhoid Mary" — that same reaction among all the couples she goes to for comfort. The narrator of "Between the Conceits" declares without hesitation that London is controlled by only eight individuals, and, thankfully, he is one of them.

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Title	:	Grey Area
Author	:	Will Self
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 287 pages
Published	:	February 6th 1997 by Atlantic Monthly Press (first published 1994)
Categories	:	Short Stories. Fiction. European Literature. British Literature. Literature. 20th Century. Anthologies. Collections

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Ratings: 3.66 From 922 Users | 35 Reviews

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A lovely collection of darkly surreal, very British short stories. They're engrossing and well-written. There were two in the middle ("Scale" and "Chest") that were longer and less interesting and I wound up skipping partway through. If it weren't for those two stories, however, this would have gotten the full five stars. I really enjoyed these.

Loved this. A collection of nine short stories that range from satirical to plain weird. They're surprisingly accessible considering Self's reputation as a sesquipedalian. I haven't read any of his other books, partly for this reason, so these short stories were the ideal introduction.

Grey Area, a collection of short stories, like all collections, is a mixed bag. For every singularly Selfian story which dazzles and impresses, there's another dark with misanthropy and bereft of the light touch of satire. Self is an audacious writer (in the same way my beloved Nicola Barker is): he writes not to relate the reader but to show off, to impress them. The stories in this collection are fantastic, satirical, vexing, imposing, breath-taking, irritating, all in the way Self's work has

Couldn't get into this one, and didn't read past the first story.

http://haydenwritesthings.wordpress.c...Wow.Stretching up the hill ahead of me, I begin to see all of my future relationships, bearing me on and up like some escalator of the fleshly. Each step is a man, a man who will penetrate me with his penis and his language, a man who will make a little private place with me, secure for a month, or a week, or a couple more years.I picked Grey Area up last week from a second-hand bookshop, and started reading it on my home. I continued reading it when I got

Will Self's laconic, intellectual style is highly readable throughout this collection of stories which are often surreal and always absurd. Rather than deconstruct each story individually, it's interesting to note the common themes which unite them all. Alienation, physiological disgust and shared experience run through these stories like a vein and it's this latter theme which is the most interesting.'Between The Conceits' is either about eight people who control the lives of every man and

I really love Will Self, but I often find his stuff a little too cerebral. Interesting, but emotionless. Not this- this one freaked me the fuck out. Fantastic. Brilliant.