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The Quiddity of Will Self - Sam Mills

Peter [Blogger]Posted by Peter [Blogger] at 23/05/2012 16:30:07
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The Quiddity of Will Self by Sam Mills
 

When Richard finds his neighbour dead, surrounded by images of  author and columnist Will Self, little does he know how his life is going to change. He's attempting to write a novel but his anti-pyschotic drugs are dampening his mind. He remembers a card that fell from Sylvie's pocket last time he saw her and follows the clue to discover a cult that worships Will Self. Richard reveals quite early on that he is taking clozapine, a drug used to treat schizophrenia, so you start to wonder whether it's all one big hallucination.
The narrative then skips to Sylvie's ghost who is haunting Will Self. Then we go back to a diary written by Richard after a certain event has happened. Then we skip to the future and we wonder if we are reading a book within a book within a book...and so on. 
This is a quirky, comic literary novel for fans of original fiction.

Not for everyone but if you like unconventional narrative structure or are a fan of Will Self, give it a go.

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