A brief and brilliant satire of magazine hacks and fashionistas, The
Sweet Smell of Psychosis shows Will Self--a writer hailed by Time as
"brilliant, iconoclastic...one of Britain's most original young
writers"--at the top of his form.
It looks like it's going to be quite a Christmas for Richard Hermes,
powdered with cocaine and whining with the white noise of urban
derangement. Not so much enfolded as trapped in the bosom of the most
venal media clique in London, Richard is losing it on all fronts: He's
losing his heart to Ursula Bentley, a nubile and vacuous magazine
columnist; he's in danger of losing his job at the pretentious listings
magazine Rendezvous; he's losing his mind courtesy of Colombia's chief
illegal export; and, worst of all, he's losing his soul...to the king of
all media and sinister purveyor of opportunities--sexual, chemical, and
professional--known only as Bell.
Murky, paranoid, and hilarious, The Sweet Smell of Psychosis is Will
Self at his best.
