Shark turns upon an actual incident in WWII - mentioned in the film Jaws - when the ship which had delivered the fissile material to the south Pacific to be dropped on Hiroshima was subsequently sunk by a Japanese submarine with the loss of 900 men, including 200 killed in the largest shark attack ever recorded.

When the Creep, an American resident in the 1970s at the therapeutic community in north London supervised by maverick psychiatrist Zack Busner, starts to tell rambling stories of thrashing about in the water while under attack from sharks, Busner has to decide whether they are schizoid delusions or some sort of reality.

On a sunny spring day at the beginning of the 1970s psychiatrist Dr Zack Busner and his fellow residents at the Concept House therapeutic community in north London drop acid.


About the Author
Will Self is the author of many novels and books of non-fiction, including Great Apes, The Book of Dave, How the Dead Live, which was shortlisted for the Whitbread Novel of the Year 2002, The Butt, winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction 2008, Umbrella, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2012, and Shark. His most recent novel, Phone, was shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize. He lives in south London.

Reviews
An exciting, mesmerizing, wonderfully disturbing book. Go with it and it will suck you under * Daily Telegraph *
Breathtaking and dazzling. An exhilarating tour-de-force ... immersing the reader in a trippy Odyssey * Daily Mail *
Intellectually dazzling and emotionally frazzling. Self is the most daring and delightful novelist of his generation * Guardian *
Will challenge and disturb, exasperate and entertain * Independent *
Highly enjoyable, vividly, even profoundly imagined. Self is creating something rather grand * Sunday Times *



Book Information
ISBN 9780141046389
Author Will Self
Format Paperback
Page Count 480
Imprint Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
Weight(grams) 332g
Dimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 29mm