My Idea of Fun: A Novel (edit title)

Shelfari edited the description of My Idea of Fun: A Novel Saturday, August 1 2009.

• Blackly comic, comically erudite and perversely bloody." -- Boston Globe The story of a devilishly clever international financier/marketing wizard and his young apprentice, My Idea of Fun is both a frighteningly dark subterranean exploration of capitalism run rampant and a wickedly sharp, technically acute display of linguistic pyrotechnics that glows with pure white-hot brilliance. Ian Wharton is a very ordinary young man until he is taken under the wing of a gentleman known variously as Mr. Broadhurst, Samuel Northcliff, and finally and conclusively simply as the Fat Controller, Loud-mouthed, impeccably tailored, a fount of bombastic erudition, the Fat Controller initiates Ian into the dark secrets of his arts -- of marketing, money, and the human psyche -- and takes Ian, and the reader, on a wild voyage around the edges of reality. "Dazzling.... An unforgettably soul.... Self leaves little doubt that we are in the presence of a gifted and courageous mind." -- Miami Herald

Shelfari edited the contributors of My Idea of Fun: A Novel Saturday, July 25 2009.

• Added a contributor: Will Self: (Primary Author)