Cock and Bull (Paperback)

from anya127

My question is can I get my money back and why why why is this writer feted and lauded over like the King of wherever when his work is so miserbaly unappealing please no more Self . Enough .

from ConnieJo

I generally enjoy stories that explore gender identity, but I really disliked this one. I read the second story first, the story about the man who develops a vagina in the pit of his knee, and I was really upset by the story that unfolded. Mostly I hated the doctor character, who made the story w...

from addict

Two bitingly erudite and absurdist novellas describe characters who suddenly sprout the genitalia of the opposite sex. If David Lodge were to collaborate with Monty Python, the results might resemble this wickedly playful, gender-bending pair of novellas. The first, Cock: A Novelette, concerns C...

from wirkman

A man develops a vagina on his leg, and his doctor, an aficionado of that sexual organ, falls in love with him. A woman develops a penis, and everything about the world around her seems to change. Of such metamorphoses does Will Self make his comedy. Modern-day Kafka? Or just oddity? I wasn't qui...

from Darkman

OK so a woman, much to her astonishment, begins to sprout a penis in "Cock: A Novelette", the first of these twin satires. "Bull" the second, is about a man who develops a vagina behind the bend in his knee.....so either you're drawn to this bizarre idea or not. Only Will Self could write this st...