Review
Will Self's collection of journalism and selected writings has all the usual caustic edge and bitter wit that is his stock in trade. Feeding Frenzy is a collection that takes us through the turbulent years 1995 to 2000. Self's observations on the changing face of British culture even includes his series of restaurant reviews for The Observer, which had several restaurateurs eager for his abrupt exit from this life. But the subjects here are satisfyingly varied: from the Queen Mother through voyeuristic victim TV to the excesses of the rock music business (over which Self casts a singularly cold eye). A fascinating collection, guaranteed to tread on all the usual toes.
Product Description
FEEDING FRENZY, Will Self's third collection of journalism and selected writings takes us through the turbulent years 1995-2000. During this period Self surfed the great wave of olive oil which nearly swept British metropolitan culture away, and produced a series of restaurant reviews for The Observer, whose coruscating criticality led to a cabal of restaurateurs plotting his contract killing. In essays to accompany the work of admired artists such as Marc Quinn, feature articles on rock music and remote places, reviews of cultural phenomena as diverse as voyeuristic television and the Queen Mother, Self has produced what can only be described as a cachinnating cacophony of wilful provocation.
