- Design Faults in the Volvo 760 Turbo
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Design Faults in the Volvo 760 Turbo
The Book's CoverAuthor(s) Will Self Country United Kingdom Language English Genre(s) Short Story Collection Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing Publication date 5 June 2005 Media type Print (Paperback) Pages 64 pp ISBN 978-0141022741 OCLC Number 57692407 This short collection of work by Will Self was published as part of the Penguin Books 70th birthday celebration. The company printed 70 slimline editions with work by authors previously published by Penguin or one of its imprints. Other authors included Vladimir Nabokov, PD James, Roald Dahl, George Orwell and JK Galbraith.[1]
The two stories in this collection were later published in the collection Tough, Tough Toys for Tough, Tough Boys.
Stories
"Design Faults in the Volvo 760 Turbo: A Manual"
Bill Bywater recounts the faults of the automobile, all the while failing to live his love life to the full."A Story for Europe"
A two year old child begins to display a curious style of gibberish. Meanwhile Herr Doktor Zweijerig, a German businessman, begins to collapse mentally.References
- ^ http://www.penguin.co.uk/static/cs/uk/0/minisites/happybirthdaypenguin/content.html |Penguin at 70 Collection
External links
Works of Will Self Fiction Cock and Bull (1992) • My Idea of Fun (1993) • Great Apes (1997) • How the Dead Live (2000) • Dorian, an Imitation (2002) • The Book of Dave (2006) • The Butt (2008) • Walking to Hollywood (2010)Short fiction The Quantity Theory of Insanity (1991) • Grey Area (1994) • License to Hug (1995) • The Sweet Smell of Psychosis (1996) • Design Faults in the Volvo 760 Turbo (1998) • Tough, Tough Toys for Tough, Tough Boys (1998) • Dr. Mukti and Other Tales of Woe (2004) • Liver: A Fictional Organ with a Surface Anatomy of Four Lobes (2008) • The Undivided Self: Selected Stories (2009)Non-fiction Junk Mail (1996) • Perfidious Man (2000) v Sore Sites (2000) • Feeding Frenzy (2001) • Psychogeography (2007) • Psycho Too (2009)Categories:- 1998 short story collections
- Short story collections by Will Self
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