Birmingham Book Festival
Will Self - Liver - A Fictional Organ with a Surface Anatomy of Four Lobes
- When:
- 16.10.2008 19.30 h - 20.45 h
- Where:
- Birmingham Conservatoire - Birmingham
- Category:
- Events
- TICKET:
- £7 (£5)
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These remarkable new pieces from Will Self each feature the largest of our internal organs: the liver, in varying states of disease and decay. In Foie Humane we go inside a Soho drinking club, the denizens of which live in a highly stylised yet emotionally dead state of excess. A subterranean Kensington flat is the setting for Birdy Num Num, where obsessives spend their days in a crepuscular realm of cocaine and heroin. In Leberknodel, a terminal liver cancer patient travels to Zurich to commit assisted suicide, only to have the cancer mysteriously go into remission…
Will Self has earned his reputation through a body of innovative work - there is nobody quite like him writing today. He is the author of five novels, four previous collections of short stories, three novellas and four non-fiction works. As a journalist he has contributed to a plethora of publications over the years and he is also a regular broadcaster on television and radio.
Will Self has earned his reputation through a body of innovative work - there is nobody quite like him writing today. He is the author of five novels, four previous collections of short stories, three novellas and four non-fiction works. As a journalist he has contributed to a plethora of publications over the years and he is also a regular broadcaster on television and radio.