The Quantity Theory of Insanity

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Publisher's Synopsis

What is there is only a limited amount of sanity in the world and the real reason people go mad is because somebody has to? What if a mysterious tribe in the Amazon rainforest turn out to be the most boring people on earth? What if the afterlife is nothing more than a London suburb, where the dead get new flats, new jobs, and their own telephone directory? These are the sort of truths that emerge in this collection of stories by one of England's most gifted writers.

In The Quantity Theory of Insanity, Will Self tips over the banal surfaces of everyday existence to uncover the hideous, the hilarious, and the bizarre. Psychiatry, anthropology, theology-and literature-will never be the same.

Book information

ISBN: 9780802121462
Publisher: Grove Atlantic
Imprint: Grove Press
Pub date:
Language: English
Number of pages: 224
Weight: 326g
Height: 209mm
Width: 139mm
Spine width: 23mm