The Resource Phone, Will Self
Phone, Will Self
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The item Phone, Will Self represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
Resource Information
The item Phone, Will Self represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
- 'WHATEVER YOU DO hang on to the phone...! ...! Feel the smoothness of its bevelled screen ...! ...! Place your thumb in the soft depression of its belly-button - turn it over and over...! ...! A five hundred-quid worry bead - and all I worry about is losing the bloody thing...! ...!' For the four characters at the heart of Will Self's brilliantly acute novel of our times the five hundred-quid worry bead in their pocket may be both a blessing and a curse. For elderly Dr Zachary Busner it is a mysterious object - 'NO CALLER ID - How should this be interpreted? Is it that the caller is devoid of an identity due to some psychological or physical trauma?' - but also it's his life line to his autistic grandson Ben, whose own connection with technology is, in turn, a vital one. For Jonathan De'Ath , aka 'the Butcher', MI6 agent, the phone may reveal his best kept secret of all: that Colonel Gawain Thomas, husband, father, and highly-trained tank commander - is Jonathan 's long time lover. And when technology, love and violence finally converge in the wreckage of postwar Iraq, the Colonel and the Spy's dalliance will determine the destiny of nations. Uniting our most urgent contemporary concerns: from the ubiquitous mobile phone to a family in chaos; from the horror of modern war, to the end of privacy, Phone is Will Self's most important and compelling novel to date
- Language
- eng
- Label
- Phone
- Title
- Phone
- Statement of responsibility
- Will Self
- Subject
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- Gay men -- Fiction
- Gay military personnel -- Fiction
- Grandparent and child -- Fiction
- Great Britain, MI6 -- Employees -- Fiction
- Interpersonal relations -- Fiction
- Iraq -- Fiction
- Autistic children -- Fiction
- Spy fiction
- Technology -- Social aspects -- Fiction
- Telephone -- Social aspects -- Fiction
- Secrecy -- Fiction
- Cell phones -- Fiction
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 'WHATEVER YOU DO hang on to the phone...! ...! Feel the smoothness of its bevelled screen ...! ...! Place your thumb in the soft depression of its belly-button - turn it over and over...! ...! A five hundred-quid worry bead - and all I worry about is losing the bloody thing...! ...!' For the four characters at the heart of Will Self's brilliantly acute novel of our times the five hundred-quid worry bead in their pocket may be both a blessing and a curse. For elderly Dr Zachary Busner it is a mysterious object - 'NO CALLER ID - How should this be interpreted? Is it that the caller is devoid of an identity due to some psychological or physical trauma?' - but also it's his life line to his autistic grandson Ben, whose own connection with technology is, in turn, a vital one. For Jonathan De'Ath , aka 'the Butcher', MI6 agent, the phone may reveal his best kept secret of all: that Colonel Gawain Thomas, husband, father, and highly-trained tank commander - is Jonathan 's long time lover. And when technology, love and violence finally converge in the wreckage of postwar Iraq, the Colonel and the Spy's dalliance will determine the destiny of nations. Uniting our most urgent contemporary concerns: from the ubiquitous mobile phone to a family in chaos; from the horror of modern war, to the end of privacy, Phone is Will Self's most important and compelling novel to date
- Cataloging source
- YDX
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Self, Will
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- novels
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Great Britain
- Technology
- Secrecy
- Interpersonal relations
- Grandparent and child
- Autistic children
- Gay men
- Gay military personnel
- Telephone
- Cell phones
- Iraq
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- Phone, Will Self
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000059997069
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 617 pages
- Isbn
- 9780670918607
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)965474819
- Label
- Phone, Will Self
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000059997069
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 617 pages
- Isbn
- 9780670918607
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)965474819
Subject
- Gay men -- Fiction
- Gay military personnel -- Fiction
- Grandparent and child -- Fiction
- Great Britain, MI6 -- Employees -- Fiction
- Interpersonal relations -- Fiction
- Iraq -- Fiction
- Autistic children -- Fiction
- Spy fiction
- Technology -- Social aspects -- Fiction
- Telephone -- Social aspects -- Fiction
- Secrecy -- Fiction
- Cell phones -- Fiction
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