Phone (novel)

Phone

First edition
Author	Will Self
Language	English
Publisher	Viking
Publication date	United Kingdom
Publication place	United Kingdom
Pages	624
Preceded by	Shark

Phone is the eleventh novel by Will Self, published in 2017. It concludes a "modernist" trilogy also consisting of Umbrella and Shark.[1]

Content

The stream-of-consciousness novel continues the story of psychiatrist Zack Busner.

Reviews

Writing for The Sunday Herald, Todd McEwan wrote: "You begin to realise that this is not art, and it’s not even satire. It’s just stuff that oozes out of a writer who is floundering in the tar pit of the establishment.”[2] Jon Day, writing for The Guardian, noted: "Phone isn't an attempt to inhabit the language of modernism but an attempt to exhaust a style. There's still plenty of fun to be had spotting references to Self's lodestars...It'll take you a couple of weeks to read all three novels properly. But I can't think of a better way to spend your time."[3]

References

1. Phone Penguin Books
2. Review, Phone by Will Self The Sunday Herald
3. Phone by Will Self review – a triumph of joined-up thinking The Guardian

External links

• Official Will Self site