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      The Quantity Theory of Insanity

      by Will Self
      Published
      Oct 1994
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      General Fiction General Fiction
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      224
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      What is there is only a limited amount of sanity in the world and the real reason people go mad is because somebody has to? What if a mysterious tribe in the Amazon rainforest turn out to be the most boring people on earth? What if the afterlife is nothing more than a London suburb, where the dead get new flats, new jobs, and their own telephone directory? These are the sort of truths that emerge in this collection of stories by one of England's most gifted writers.

      In The Quantity Theory of Insanity, Will Self tips over the banal surfaces of everyday existence to uncover the hideous, the hilarious, and the bizarre. Psychiatry, anthropology, theology—and literature—will never be the same.

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      First Edition Oct 1994 Penguin ISBN13 9780140234015 ISBN10 0140234012
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      Feb 1995 Grove Press ISBN13 9780871135858 ISBN10 087113585X
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