"Walking to Hollywood" is a dazzling triptych - obsessive, satirical, elegiac - in which Will Self burrows down through the intersections of time, place and psyche to explore some of our deepest fears and anxieties with characteristic fearlessness and jagged humour. 'Very Little' is ostensibly the account of a curative journey to Canada and the USA, but in fact the record of a nematode's progress, as the worm of obsession - with scale and packing and the 'stuff' of our lives - bores through a mind in extremesis. "Walking to Hollywood" is an extreme satire on celebrity, in which the narrator believes that everyone he meets is played by a famous actor, and that only he can solve the mystery of who murdered the movies. 'Spurn Head' leads Self to a tormented sojourn with a madman whose house is sliding over the edge of a cliff, to a game of checkers with Death, and finally to an encounter with one of Swift's immortal Struldbruggs and a march through a tear in time itself. In "Walking to Hollywood" Will Self pushes memoir to the limits of invention.
- ISBN10 0747598444
- ISBN13 9780747598442
- Publish Date 6 September 2010
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 14 July 2016
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 448
- Language English
- URL http://bloomsbury.com/Trade/