Tough, tough toys for tough, tough boys
By: Will Self.
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: Grove Press; Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
Subjects: Satire, English; England -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
Description: "Tough, Tough Toys for Tough, Tough Boys is a new collection of corkscrewed tales from the author of Great Apes."--BOOK JACKET.

"Self's world is a no-funhouse of warped mirrors. A man is seduced into a misanthropically charged symbiosis with the insects infesting his cottage - he has entered "Flytopia." In "A Story for Europe," a two-year-old English child utters his first, halting words . . . in business German.

In "Caring, Sharing," status-conscious New Yorkers navigate the perils of dating along with their very literal "inner children." In "The Rock of Crack as Big as the Ritz," a black Londoner discovers an enormous rock of crack cocaine underpinning his house - and quickly turns it into an efficient little empire. In the title story a psychoanalyst strips away all the sangfroid of his professionalism to find beneath . . . precisely nothing.

And in the short novella "The Nonce Prize," a man framed for a sex crime he didn't commit finds that his only way out is to win a short-story competition."--BOOK JACKET.
Table of contents: title: The rock of crack as big as the Ritz; title: Flytopia; title: A story for Europe; title: Dave too; title: Caring, sharing; title: Tough, tough toys for tough, tough boys; title: Design faults in the Volvo 760 Turbo; title: The Nonce Prize.