Phone

AUTEUR(S): Will Self.

TAAL: Engels.
UITGEVER: Rodopi, Editions.
JAAR: 2018.
PAGINA’S: 356.
DRUK: Eerste editie.
FORMAAT: 198 x 128 x 29 mm.
GEWICHT: 431 gram.
STAAT: Nieuw (New).
UITVOERING: Paperback / zachte kaft / gelijmd.
ISBN/EAN: 9780141046396.

BESCHRIJVING

‘WHATEVER YOU DO hang on to the phone. . . . . . . . ! . . . . . . . . ! Feel the smoothness of its bevelled screen . . . . . . . . ! . . . . . . . . ! Place your thumb in the soft depression of its belly-button – turn it over and over. . . . . . . . ! . . . . . . . . ! A five hundred-quid worry bead – and all I worry about is losing the bloody thing. . . . . . . . ! . . . . . . . . !'<br/>For the four characters at the heart of Will Self’s brilliantly acute novel of our times the five hundred-quid worry bead in their pocket may be both a blessing and a curse. For elderly Dr Zachary Busner it is a mysterious object – ‘NO CALLER ID – How should this be interpreted? Is it that the caller is devoid of an identity due to some psychological or physical trauma?’ – but also it’s his life line to his autistic grandson Ben, whose own connection with technology is, in turn, a vital one.<br/>For Jonathan De’Ath , aka ‘the Butcher’, MI6 agent, the phone may reveal his best kept secret of all: that Colonel Gawain Thomas, husband, father, and highly-trained tank commander – is Jonathan ’s long time lover. <br/>And when technology, love and violence finally converge in the wreckage of postwar Iraq, the Colonel and the Spy’s dalliance will determine the destiny of nations. <br/>Uniting our most urgent contemporary concerns: from the ubiquitous mobile phone to a family in chaos; from the horror of modern war, to the end of privacy, Phone is Will Self’s most important and compelling novel to date.