num_pages: 211
description: What if there is only a limited amount of sanity in the world and the real reason people go mad is because "somebody" has to? What if a mysterious tribe in the Amazon rainforest turn out to be the most boring people on the earth? What if the afterlife is nothing more than a London suburb, where the dead get new flats, new jobs, and their own telephone directory? These are the sort of truths that emerge in this collection of stories by one of England's most gifted writers. In The Quantity Theory of Insanity, Will Self tips over the banal surfaces of everyday existence to uncover the hideous, the hilarious, and the bizarre. Psychiatry, anthropology, theology--and literature--will never be the same.
language: English
title: The Quantity Theory Of Insanity
titlecomplete: The Quantity Theory Of Insanity
characters: Zack Busner
genres: British Literature, Anthologies, Short Stories, Humor, Novels, 20th Century, Literature, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 2398
awards: awardedAt: 725875200000
name: Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize
publisher: Penguin Books