The Quiddity of Will Self will be released in paperback on 7th March 2013. The novel has been described by The Sunday Times as “an ingenious, energetic read” and The Guardian as “an extraordinary novel of orgiastic obsession”.
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The Quiddity of Will Self by Sam Mills has been longlisted for Not the Booker Prize 2012. Voting for the shortlist is open to the public but closes at 23.59 on the night of Thursday 9th August.
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The Quiddity of Will Self has received another very good review over the weekend.
Nichlas Royle, writing in Saturday’s Guardian, called Quiddity “an extraordinary odyssey of orgiastic obsession” and noted that “a novel as ambitious and outrageous as Mills’s fourth (her first emphatically for adult readers) seems to defy conventional review and synopsis, so freely does it play with notions of authorship and fiction versus reality, even to the extent of the author having inaugurated the very same Will Self Club (WSC) around which she spins her increasingly absurd yarn.”
Royle concludes his review by wondering if art might imitate life, and Will Self adopt his Quiddity fictionalisation, as in the case of Paul Auster and Sophie Calle.
Read the full review here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/mar/30/quiddity-will-self-sam-mills-review?newsfeed=true.
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The Quiddity of Will Self has been reviewed by Robert Collins in the Times. Here is a link for those with access to content behind the Times paywall, and some highlights for those without…
Sam Mills, the author of this funny, inventive debut novel (she previously penned a series for young adults), has, apparently, been assured by Will Self that he won’t be suing her for creating a fictional world based on his brilliance as a novelist. There are plenty of other reasons, too, why Self should have warmed to Mills’s anarchic work, brimming as it is with so many Self-like elements: debauched sex acts, insanely powerful mind-altering drugs and grotesque gender reversals.
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An ingenious, energetic read, admirable for the verve and macabre imagination with which Mills pursues her quarry.
Sam Mills was also interviewed about her literary fascination with Will Self by Mariella Frostrup on Radio 4′s Open Book, alongside Rodge Glass, the author of Bring Me the Head of Ryan Giggs. The interview begins about 18 minutes in.
Here’s a link:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01dhdd9
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We have no true spiritual masters in current Western society – our priests are paedophiles, our politicians are celebrities, our celebrities are earthworms. Who can fill this spiritual vacuum? The answer can only lie with writers. Consider then, the WSC, a shadowy cult that worships Will Self, governed by a complex Masonic hierarchy; Initiation ceremonies are notoriously testing. Those who do manage to infiltrate the hierarchies of this faith, however, receive the lifelong blessing of W.S. in deified form, frequent moments of exquisite serendipity, and experiences of the flesh that are miraculous and ecstatic in sensation.