Will: A Memoir

Will: A MemoirUnflinching, intoxicating, heartfelt, and propelled by an exceptional energy, Will is the long awaited memoir by Will Self, whose works have been shortlisted for the Booker Prize and translated into over twenty languages. A portrait of the artist as a young addict, Will is one of the most eloquent and unusual depictions of the allure of hard drugs ever written. Will spins the reader from Self's childhood in a quiet North London suburb to his mind

Unflinching, intoxicating, heartfelt, and propelled by an exceptional energy, Will is the long-awaited memoir by Will Self, whose works have been shortlisted for the Booker Prize and translated into over twenty languages. A portrait of the artist as a young addict, Will is one of the most eloquent and unusual depictions of the allure of hard drugs ever written.

Will spins the reader from Self's childhood in a quiet North London suburb to his mind-expanding education at Oxford, to a Burroughsian trip to Morocco, an outback vision in Australia, and, finally, a surreal turn in rehab. Echoing the great Modernist writers of the early twentieth century in its psychedelic stream of consciousness, Will is vividly imagistic and mordantly witty. It is both kunstlerroman and confessional, a tale of excess and degradation, a karmic cycle that leads back to the author's own lack of . . . will.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: 01/14/2020
ISBN: 9780802128461
Pages: 272
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.80w x 1.50d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 10/14/2019
Kirkus Reviews 11/01/2019
Booklist 12/15/2019 pg. 87
Library Journal 01/01/2020 pg. 75