The New York Times Book Review has called Will Self a defiant satirist
with a peculiar mastery of the vocabulary of modern neurosis, and Tough,
Tough Toys for Tough, Tough Boys is a dazzling foray into his funhouse
world. Status-conscious New Yorkers navigate the perils of dating along
with their very literal inner children. A man is seduced into a
misanthropically charged symbiosis with the insects infesting his
cottage. In The Rock of Crack as Big as the Ritz, a black Londoner
discovers an enormous rock of crack cocaine underpinning his house--and
quickly turns it into an efficient little empire. In the title story a
psychoanalyst strips away all the sang froid of his professionalism to
find beneath ... precisely nothing. Sharp, funny, and packed with verbal
fireworks, Tough, Tough Toys for Tough, Tough Boys confirms yet again
Will Self's stature as one of the most accomplished and original writers
of his generation.