The Quantity Theory of Morality

<p><b>''Reads like early Nabokov: barbed, provocative, virtuosic in his performance of linguistic jokes...rollicking, unsettling and furiously intelligent'' <i>Guardian</i></b><br><br><b>''Full of pathos and penetrating insights into the best and worst in human nature.</b> <b>A consummate performance, it''s a book that might finally silence Self''s critics'' <i>Spectator</i></b><br><br>This dark yet hilariously satirical state-of-an-era novel sees Will Self''s middle-class, middle-English characters apparently trapped in a timeless go-round of polite chitchat in dinner parties that refract like a hall of mirrors, until one day someone says something to the effect of, ''This way to the gas chamber, please, ladies and gentlemen.''<br><br><i>The Quantity Theory of</i> <i>Morality</i> finally solves the equation of time and money that dominates our lives, in a way that is simultaneously deranging, destabilizing and hilarious, showing Self to be both a master of satire and slapstick humour and a sublime and thoughtful critic of the alienation of modern life.<br><br>With <i>The Quantity Theory of Morality</i>, Self provides the sequel to his award-winning debut of 35 years ago, <i>The Quantity Theory of Insanity</i>. That literary psycho-surgery proved there wasn''t enough sanity to go around - now he''s established what many of us fear to be the absolute truth: there isn''t enough good to go around, either.</p>