Psycho Too
1st Edition
Published on 5. December 2013
256 pages
978-1-4088-5254-5 (ISBN)
Description
Will Self and Ralph Steadman join forces once again in a further post-millennial meditation on the vexed relationship of psyche and place in a globalised world; Psycho Too brings together a second helping of their very best words and pictures from 'Psychogeography', the columns they contributed to the Independent for half a decade.
The introduction, 'Journey Through Britain' is a new extended essay by Self, accompanied by Steadman's inimitable images. It tells of how Self journeyed to Dubai, that Götterdammerung of the contemporary built environment, in order to walk the length of the artificial Britain-shaped island, in the offshore luxury housing development known as 'The World'.
Ranging from Istanbul to Los Angeles and from the crumbling coastline of East Yorkshire to the adamantine heads of Easter Island, Will Self's engaging and disturbing vision is once again perfectly counter-pointed by Ralph Steadman's edgy and dazzling artwork.
The introduction, 'Journey Through Britain' is a new extended essay by Self, accompanied by Steadman's inimitable images. It tells of how Self journeyed to Dubai, that Götterdammerung of the contemporary built environment, in order to walk the length of the artificial Britain-shaped island, in the offshore luxury housing development known as 'The World'.
Ranging from Istanbul to Los Angeles and from the crumbling coastline of East Yorkshire to the adamantine heads of Easter Island, Will Self's engaging and disturbing vision is once again perfectly counter-pointed by Ralph Steadman's edgy and dazzling artwork.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN-13
978-1-4088-5254-5 (9781408852545)
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Will Self
Psycho Too
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Persons
Will Self is the author of The Quantity Theory of Insanity, Grey Area, Cock & Bull, My Idea of Fun, Junk Mail, The Sweet Smell of Psychosis, Great Apes, Tough, Tough Toys for Tough, Tough Boys, Dorian, How the Dead Live, which was shortlisted for the Whitbread Novel of the Year 2002, The Book of Dave, Psychogeography and The Butt. He lives in South London.
Ralph Steadman is the author of many illustrated books, including Sigmund Freud, I Leonardo, The Big I Am and The Scar-Strangled Banner. He is also the author of the novel Doodaaa and the memoir The Joke's Over: Memories of Hunter S. Thompson, and the illustrator of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Alice, Animal Farm, The Devil's Dictionary and Psychogeography. He lives in Kent.
Ralph Steadman is the author of many illustrated books, including Sigmund Freud, I Leonardo, The Big I Am and The Scar-Strangled Banner. He is also the author of the novel Doodaaa and the memoir The Joke's Over: Memories of Hunter S. Thompson, and the illustrator of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Alice, Animal Farm, The Devil's Dictionary and Psychogeography. He lives in Kent.
Content
- Intro
- Title page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction: Walking to The World
- Chapter 1 The Jeremiah Tree
- Chapter 2 Plenty of Room in the Asylum
- Chapter 3 Hermetic Wisdom
- Chapter 4 Sodom Bypass
- Chapter 5 The Carpet Moves
- Chapter 6 No Country for Wise Men
- Chapter 7 Gayvaria
- Chapter 8 Battersea!
- Chapter 9 The Crayfish Quadrille
- Chapter 10 Captain Birdseye
- Chapter 11 Small is Beautiful
- Chapter 12 Agoraphobia
- Chapter 13 The Eden Reject
- Chapter 14 Flu Away!
- Chapter 15 The Green Zone
- Chapter 16 The Inertia of Middle Age
- Chapter 17 The Yurt
- Chapter 18 Come Dancing
- Chapter 19 Burning an Illusion
- Chapter 20 From a Dope to a Burqa
- Chapter 21 My Second Life
- Chapter 22 The Sordid Act of Union
- Chapter 23 Desktop Santiago
- Chapter 24 Chile con Carne
- Chapter 25 Capel-y-Ffin
- Chapter 26 On Black Mountain
- Chapter 27 So Long Toulouse
- Chapter 28 Epitaph for a Small Loser
- Chapter 29 Doggerland de Nos Jours
- Chapter 30 Cardinism
- Chapter 31 Bring Me the Villa of Alfredo Garcia
- Chapter 32 Thirteen Million Candle Power
- Chapter 33 Dum-Dum Want Gum Gum
- Chapter 34 Grisly, man
- Chapter 35 Whistlin' in Sausalito
- Chapter 36 Horned Helmet
- Chapter 37 Top 5 Winter Walks
- Chapter 38 RosaFullsizeFuckstick
- Chapter 39 Bill Gates
- Chapter 40 Before the Law
- Chapter 41 Peter Grimy
- Chapter 42 Heart of Lightness
- Chapter 43 The Great Vomit Wave of '08
- Chapter 44 I Rendezvoused with Thanet
- Chapter 45 Maglorian
- Chapter 46 Clipping Ralph
- Chapter 47 Down and Out in Beverly Hills
- Chapter 48 Mad Masterchefs' Tea Party
- Chapter 49 Hot Nuts
- Chapter 50 Longshore Drifter
- Chapter 51 The Erosion of Truth
- Chapter 52 Against the Dying of the Light
- eCopyright
