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The new novel from Booker-shortlisted Will Self completes his trilogy, begun with Umbrella, and continued with Shark—a highly praised exploration of technology and psychopathology from World War I to WikiLeaks, a story of love, death, and madness Published to rave reviews in the United Kingdom, Phone tells the story of two men: Zack Busner and Jonathan De’Ath. Busner is a psychiatrist who has made his name through his unorthodox treatment of psychological damage, such as giving the controversial drug L-DOPA to patients ravaged by encephalitis, or administering LSD to World War II PTSD-sufferers. But now Busner’s own mind is fraying: Alzheimer’s is shredding his memory and his newest possession is a shiny smartphone given to him by his introverted grandson Ben. Meanwhile, Jonathan De’Ath, aka “the Butcher,” is an MI6 man who remains a mystery even to those closest to him, be it his washed-up old university lecturer father, his jumbling-bumbling mother, his hippy-dippy brothers, his spooky colleagues or multitudinous lovers. All of De’Ath’s acquaintances apply the “Butcher” epithet to him, and perhaps there is only one person who thinks of him with tenderness, a man he keeps top secret, encrypted in the databanks of his steely mind: Colonel Gawain Thomas, husband, father, highly-trained tank commander, and Jonathan De’Ath’s long-time lover. As Busner’s mind totters and Jonathan and Gawain’s affair teeters, they come to face the interconnectedness of all lives, online and off, while an irritating phone continues to ring… ring… ring… Read more

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Grove Press (January 9, 2018)


Publication date ‏ : ‎ January 9, 2018


Language ‏ : ‎ English


File size ‏ : ‎ 1632 KB


Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled


Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported


Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled


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    • A brilliant end to a great trilogy
Read Umbrella and Shark first
Reviewed in the United States on February 14, 2018 by Amazon Customer
    • Detritus
Context: I like Will Self the man a great deal. He adores the films of Tarkovsky (as do I). He will reprimand an event organizer who has his face in his phone just as Self begins to give a presentation before an audience (I applaud this in an age which accepts the discontinuity of the cell phone as a given). And he practices (and teaches) psychogeography, which I guess I've been doing for ages (walking without determinism, taking in one's surroundings like an animal might, actually enjoying the moment/being, rather than being reduced to a circle on a cell phone screen map). And I like his politics. These are the reasons why I bought his novel "Phone." I expected depth; I found mostly detritus, sadly (I like Will Self). Do you think it is "brilliant" for an author to repeatedly spell out acronyms for 600+ pages, for HVO to become AitchVeeOh (among many others)? Then this novel is right up your alley. Do you like arbitrary italicizations on page after page? (Yes, some italics are properly used when song lyrics are interspersed throughout, uncredited, which I suppose is in some way a feat of surreptitious writing; no music publisher is going to wade through this book to challenge the use; but other song lyrics herein are NOT italicized, so go figure.) Do you really enjoy a lot of exclamation marks in your text, but detest quotation marks (there are none of the latter for "dialogue"; no need to assist the reader of one long paragraph which never ends)? Do you like capitalizations? Here's what I mean: "...he held up a flower, my own man-one has been less...RHEUMY OLD EYES SADLY CAST DOWN...upstanding." There is no CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT (as you can see, I'm a literary genius also with my use of caps). The characters are merely there for Self's word play to bounce around. I believe this word play has less interest and wit than say a good many limericks (which I often adore). Some themes are consistent: the use of Vaseline (P.155 and P.225) for purposes which I cannot quote because my first attempt to post this review was censored (Will Self's words were objected to in the review), and there were other passages with similar content (P.57 and P.343). My attempt to highlight these passages was not moralistic but rather to show a thread, and to exhibit the style of the sentences (but it is not allowed to share these quotes I have learned). If you are seeking psychological complexity in characters, people who love and hate and dream, read Norman Mailer, Nabakov, Saul Bellow, Dostoyevsky, Salman Rushdie, Houellebecq, Updike, Amitiv Ghosh, Graham Greene, F.Scott Fitzgerald... ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on February 9, 2022 by Incognito
    • NOT FOR ME
This is one of the strangest books I've ever read. Or should I say that I TRIED to read. I just couldn't get used to the format and style of writing with the pages long sentences that didn't seem to make a lot of sense. There's something for everyone and I'm sure there will be people who love this book. Not me. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on January 11, 2018 by CAROL CUSTER
    • The novel IS absolutely doomed, as Will Self has said, if this book is any indication.
Gimmicky modernism owing a huge debt to Tom Wolfe (and I suppose Joyce) but it's pretty hard on the eye even if Self is not without talent. It's always a bit ludicrous when, in an attempt to act like they've got something new to flog, novelists like Self make such (embarrassing) public pronouncements as "the novel is absolutely doomed" before hurling a 600-page paragraph-free doorstop at people as some kind of announcement that THIS here is the new form or whatever. A paragraph-free, free-associative sound-effects-afflicted mess. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on June 11, 2018 by Headscratcher
    • love it/hate it book
Phone by Will Self is a stream-of-conscious tome about two men, Alzheimer's, technology, disassociation, war, and affairs. Zack Busner "is a psychiatrist who has made his name through his unorthodox treatment of psychological damage, such as giving the controversial drug L-DOPA to patients ravaged by encephalitis, or administering LSD to World War II PTSD-sufferers. But now Busner’s own mind is fraying: Alzheimer’s is shredding his memory and his newest possession is a shiny smartphone given to him by his introverted grandson Ben." Jonathan De’Ath "aka 'the Butcher,' is an MI6 man who remains a mystery even to those closest to him, be it his washed-up old university lecturer father, his jumbling-bumbling mother, his hippy-dippy brothers, his spooky colleagues or multitudinous lovers. All of De’Ath’s acquaintances apply the “Butcher” epithet to him, and perhaps there is only one person who thinks of him with tenderness, a man he keeps top secret, encrypted in the databanks of his steely mind: Colonel Gawain Thomas, husband, father, highly-trained tank commander, and Jonathan De’Ath’s long-time lover." Written in a stream-of-consciousness style with no paragraph breaks or chapter breaks, Self is requiring a whole lot of concentration from his readers. In some ways he seems to be egging the reader on, deliberately trying to exasperate us and daring us to lose focus and interest. It is over 600 pages and includes an overabundance of ellipsis that can begin to annoy and distract even the most careful reader. Add to this the words and acronyms spelled phonetically (and thus must be sounded out) which, yeah, slows the reading down and began to grate on my nerves. The narration jumps from one character to the other with no break, no transition and mid-sentence. There is also a constantly ringing smart phone. This is a love it/hate it book. Even with some rather brilliant and insightful passages (to which 2 stars gives a nod), Phone was overwhelming to read and not necessarily in a good way for me. Die-hard fans of Self's modernist trilogy that began with Umbrella and Shark will want to tackle Phone. If you aren't a loyal reader of Self, you may want to consider skipping this one. Finally, quit frankly, this novel is dominated by men and phallic discussions so I was never the target audience for it and in some ways resent the time I spent carefully reading it. Disclosure: My review copy was courtesy of Grove Atlantic. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on January 9, 2018 by She Treads Softly
    • An Astute and Polished Review
This novel is surely some kind of a joke. I was unable to finish reading this gibberish. I note that there are favorable reviews in major publications. Hey, the author has no clothes! Thanks,NetGalley, for the ARC.
Reviewed in the United States on January 19, 2018 by Ken C.

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