"Will Self may not be the last modernist at work but at the moment he's the most fascinating of the tradition's torch bearers."-- New York Magazine "Self is the most daring and delightful novelist of his generation, a writer whose formidable intellect is mercilessly targeted on the limits of the cerebral as a means of understanding. Yes, he makes you think, but he also insists that you feel."-- Guardian "Mr. Self often enough writes with such vividness it's as if he is the first person to see anything at all."-- New York Times "Self writes in a high-modernist, hallucinatory, stream-of-consciousness style, leaping between sentences, time periods, and perspectives . The reward is a strange, vivid book."-- New Yorker "Self's prose demands real attention, but is never less than sharp, biting and incisive.

Prepare to be eaten whole."-- Independent "Like the work of the great high modernists from the 1920s, like Joyce, Woolf and Eliot, there is a kind of chaotic beauty in Self's unrestricted writing . You'll be simultaneously entertained, mesmerized, intellectually stimulated, baffled--and laugh your ass off."-- NPR "Will Self's Phone will be one of the most significant literary works of our century . Over and above the intellectual sprezzatura of the work, there is, at its heart, an emotional core, a profound sense of grief."-- New Statesman "Self has indeed been a goat among the sheep of contemporary English fiction, a puckish trickster self-consciously at odds with its middle-class politeness . Writers, too, as Self so wonderfully proves, can awaken the half-dead and reanimate that which has been sunk in oblivion."-- New York Review of Books.