UMBRELLA by Will Self (Hardback) Bloomsbury 2012
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UMBRELLA by Will Self.
1918 - Audrey Death - feminist, socialist and munitions worker at Woolwich Arsenal - falls ill with encephalitis Lethargia as the epidemic rages across Europe, killing a third of its victims and condeming a further third to living death.
1971 - Under the curious eyes of psychiatrist Dr Zack Busner, assumed mental patient Audrey death lies supine in bed above a spring grotto that she made every one of the forty-nine years she has resided in Friern Mental Hospital.
2010 - Now retired, Dr Busner travels waywardly across North London in search of the truth about that tumultuous summer when he awoke the post-encephalitic patients under his care using a new and powerful drug.
Weaving together a dense tapestry of consciousness and lived life across an entire century, in his latest and most ambitious novel Will Self takes up the challenge of Modernism and demonstrates how it - and it alone - can unravel new and unsettling truths about our world and how it cam to be.
When they reach the New King's Road there is a cream-and-brown 'bus clopping in towards the kerb, a lodestone drawing people to it, and Audrey too feels the static thrill, as once when Stan rubbed a cellulod dickey on a scap of velveteen and held t to her neck and the hairs at her nape prickled - Hi!
Fentiman. Her father raises his umbrella and, thrusting her in front of him, they cut through the gaggle. Mister Death, the conductor says, tippiong his hat, and they squeeze up the stairs and make their way to the front seat. Finest penny to be spent on the London stage, her father has said often enough, and he also says, A wide window on a widening world.
Fentiman. Her father raises his umbrella and, thrusting her in front of him, they cut through the gaggle. Mister Death, the conductor says, tippiong his hat, and they squeeze up the stairs and make their way to the front seat. Finest penny to be spent on the London stage, her father has said often enough, and he also says, A wide window on a widening world.
A hardback published in 2012 by Bloomsbury (£18.99 r.r.p.)
Will post via Royal Mail.
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| Listing Type | Gallery Listing |
| Listing ID# | 230726148 |
| Start Time | Tue 22 Jul 2025 10:22:50 (BST) |
| Close Time | Thu 21 Aug 2025 10:22:50 (BST) |
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| Format | Hardcover |
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| Subject | Literature, Modern |
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