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Cock and Bull

by Will Self
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Will Self has been praised by The New York Times Book Review as “a high-powered satirical weapon" and Cock & Bull is one of his most outrageous works of fiction
“Cock: A Novelette" is the story of a woman who grows a fully functional penis. “Bull: A Farce" is the story of a man who acquires a vagina and all its companion parts. There are, however, complications. Cock & Bull, the book that introduced an enfant terrible of English letters to an American audience, has quickly become a classic of blistering satire.

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    October 16, 2012

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      • ISBN: 9780802193407

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      • ISBN: 9780802193407
      • File size: 294 KB

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    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      May 3, 1993
      Issues of gender identity move from the philosophical to the physical realm in these two racy, startingly inventive novellas of genital anomaly set in contemporary London. ``Cock'' introduces Carol, a dissatisfied housewife who, while coping with her husband's sloppy alcoholism and her own quest for sexual fulfillment, sprouts a penis. ``Bull'' tells of John Bull, a rugby enthusiast and frustrated sportswriter who awakens one morning to find behind his left knee a strange, deep wound that he will soon learn is a vagina. Self ( The Quantity Theory of Insanity ) relates these Kafkaesque fables with an acerbic wit and a narrative mastery that make the absurd seem credible and the commonplace absurd. Indicting all listeners and tellers of stories through ``Cock'' 's vituperative narrator and through ``Bull'' 's mockery of journalism, Self treats his readers alternately to biting satire and to flashes of insight, delivering all in zestfully erudite language.

    • Publisher's Weekly

      February 28, 1994
      Two bitingly erudite and absurdist novellas describe characters who suddenly sprout the genitalia of the opposite sex.

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