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The Butt - Will Self

 
Description: ISBN 074759645X / Genre: Fiction / Author: Will Self / Paperback / 368 Pages / Book is published 2009-05-04 by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Newest Review: ... system. Even other countries are referred to obliquely - the tourist's American origins are made obvious through his ... more

 ... behaviour and dialogue rather than any details of his home town. Prentice is only identified as British through his obsession with cricket. The novel is told entirely from the point of view of Tom Brodzinski, the man who injures his neighbour and who is eventually forced to travel into the wilderness to make reparations to the man's tribe. The third person narration, however, means we're never entirely in his head. With a story that concerns itself heavily with perception (both of characters and of the country itself), t...more

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Premium Review The Butt - Will Self: Butt me no Butts (688 words)
by - written on 23/06/09 (Very useful, 37 readings)
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There's definitely some satire in Will Self's latest novel, The Butt. A tourist carelessly flicks away his final cigarette, and then finds himself charged with attempted murder after it hits his neighbour's head. The satire's target, however, is less clear. Is Self (a man pilloried for taking cocaine on a politican's plane, remember) simply having a dig at the absurdity of the smoking bans that are sweeping across the Western world? Or is this a more sophisticated examination of compensation culture? Moral relativity between different cultures? Post-colonialism? Or, as seems likely, all of the above? The book is set in a distant land which can't quite make up ...  Read the complete review

 

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