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Radio 4,2 mins

Will Self: ‘Busner is like my Dad’

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Author Will Self on the special relationship he has with his recurring shrink character Dr Zack Busner. Busner appears again in Self’s new novel, the 2012 Booker Prize-shortlisted Umbrella. In Umbrella, Self uses stream of consciousness prose, defying the conventional structure of a novel and explores the idea of mental illness in an attempt to answer the question What is madness?

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