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John Self is vulgar, exploitative, and often calamitously drunk. He careens through a life made frictionless by the enormous amount of money he earns as director of advertisements and at the time of the novel's opening, his first feature film. As his name hints, he is the unmediated Id, all impulses completely unrestrained. Self jets between London and New York, taking meetings with actors and producers, taking any kind of drug he can, trying to squeeze every iota of sensual pleasure possible ou ...more
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