{"product_id":"9780140268645","title":"Self, Will - Tough, tough toys for tough, tough boys","description":"\u003cp\u003eWritten by Self, Will. Themes include Satire, English, England, Social life and customs, 20th century, Fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTough, Tough Toys for Tough, Tough Boys is a new collection of corkscrewed tales from the author of Great Apes. Self's world is a no-funhouse of warped mirrors. A man is seduced into a misanthropically charged symbiosis with the insects infesting his cottage - he has entered \"Flytopia.\" In \"A Story for Europe,\" a two-year-old English child utters his first, halting words . . . in business German. In \"Caring, Sharing,\" status-conscious New Yorkers navigate the perils of dating along with their very literal \"inner children.\" In \"The Rock of Crack as Big as the Ritz,\" a black Londoner discovers an enormous rock of crack cocaine underpinning his house - and quickly turns it into an efficient little empire. In the title story a psychoanalyst strips away all the sangfroid of his professionalism to find beneath . . . precisely nothing. And in the short novella \"The Nonce Prize,\" a man framed for a sex crime he didn't commit finds that his only way out is to win a short-story competition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAll books at Vastela are pre-owned. Condition varies from good to near-new. No book is sold in unacceptable condition.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vastela Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59017698083190,"sku":null,"price":6.9,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0707\/7144\/1981\/files\/9780140268645.jpg?v=1792164907","url":"https:\/\/www.vastelabooks.com\/products\/9780140268645","provider":"Vastela Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}