 First edition | |
| Author | Will Self |
|---|---|
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Viking |
Publication date | United Kingdom |
| Pages | 624 |
| Preceded by | Shark |
Phone is the eleventh novel by Will Self, published in 2017. It concludes a "modernist" trilogy also consisting of Umbrella and Shark . [1]
The stream-of-consciousness novel continues the story of psychiatrist Zack Busner.
Writing for The Sunday Herald , Todd McEwan wrote: "You begin to realise that this is not art, and it’s not even satire. It’s just stuff that oozes out of a writer who is floundering in the tar pit of the establishment. [2] Jon Day, writing for The Guardian , noted: "Phone isn’t an attempt to inhabit the language of modernism but an attempt to exhaust a style. There’s still plenty of fun to be had spotting references to Self’s lodestars...It’ll take you a couple of weeks to read all three novels properly. But I can’t think of a better way to spend your time." [3]
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