# Liver

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- Book: [Liver](https://www.bookquiver.com/will-self/liver) ([Liver.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/will-self/liver.md))
- Authors: [Will Self](https://www.bookquiver.com/will-self)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4192-864-7
- Published: 2012-09-06
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

These remarkable new pieces from Will Self each feature the largest of our internal organs: the liver, in varying states of disease and decay. In 'Foie Humane' we go inside a Soho drinking club, the denizens of which live in a highly stylised yet emotionally dead state of excess. 'Prometheus' tells the story of a dazzlingly successful advertising copywriter who can sell anything to anyone at any time. But things go wrong when he meets Zeus, a bigshot entrepreneur with a beautiful and manipulative wife. Tony Phillips's subterranean Kensington flat is the setting for 'Birdy Num Num,' where obsessives spend their days in a crepuscular realm of cocaine and heroin. Finally, in 'Leberknodel', a terminal liver cancer patient travels to Zurich to commit assisted suicide. When she arrives, however, the cancer mysteriously goes into remission.