ISBN 0-7475-1013-X (UK pbk, 1991),,, 0-7475-1469-0 (UK pbk, 199?),,, 0-14-023401-2 (UK pbk, 1994)

"The North London Book of the Dead" by Will Self,

"Ward 9" by Will Self,

"Understanding the Ur-Bororo" by Will Self,

"The Quantity Theory of Insanity" by Will Self,

"Mono-Cellular" by Will Self,

"Waiting" by Will Self.

"Mother crops up dead but talking in Crouch End... A cellular telephone scam ends in drugged psychosis... A mental ward captivates and then captures an art therapist... Motorcycle messengers mystically intuit London traffic flows...

"We enter Will Self's wibbly-wobbly world of fun through the catflap. In this debut collection he sets out to show that tailing the reader from the front is no mere fictional gambit. It is the very stuff of theory, with a capital T." [jacket blurb, UK pbk, 1991]

"If a manic J.G.Ballard and a depressive David Lodge got together, they might produce something like The Quantity Theory of Insanity . But Will Self's world is all his own; it is both exotic and institutionalized, full of dread and dowdiness and entirely unsuspected comedy." --Martin Amis.

"It is very funny and very good, with that unmistakable sign of the genuine comic writer: absurdity unfurls logically from absurdity, but always as a mirror of what we are living in -- and wish we didn't." --Doris Lessing.

"Black, macabre and relentless -- it's also wildly funny." --Beryl Bainbridge.

"Impish, witty, outrageous." --Ruth Rendell (in the Daily Telegraph ).

"Reading this book is like entering another universe. Will Self creates (or 'recreates') a different mind set. Pretty soon you'll be composing your own theory of insanity." --Henry W.Targowski (in Mark/Space , 1996).

Recommended.

Gleebooks Gleaner - Gleebooks Bargains
(books available to buy... their catalog includes The Quantity Theory of Insanity ... haven't checked this link yet)