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The titular tale is another peep into the grim auguries of Dr. Zack Busner, here embroiled in a vicious tête-à-tête with the Hindu upstart Dr. Mukti, a chronically fed-up psychiatrist seeking to score points against the conceited and maniacal Busner. Bartering in increasingly unstable nuisance patients, the two unscrupulous head quacks exchange clinical politesse while scheming ways to make dents in their mutual career prestige, with murderous results. The antisemitic Mukti and the Hinduphobic Busner share misleading envies about each other’s equally dour home lives, in an involving and blackly comic look into a world in which sanity and the opposite have become harder to separate. ‘161’ is a story about the neglected underclass in London’s moribund towerblocks, with a young miscreant on the run hiding in the closet of an infirm pensioner, each moving in a strange rhythm within their own straitened circs. ‘The Five-swing Walk’ is a mournful portrait of a weekend papa trailing four sprogs around a series of swing-parks, another monochrome mumble around the modern male psyche familiar to Self readers. ‘Conversations with Ord’ strikes a lighter note, pitting two pals against each other in competition for the ice-maiden Sharon Crowd, their woes refracted through an imaginary future overlord named Ord. And the tremendous collection concludes with a coda to Great Apes, Self’s simian dystopian novel from 1997, in ‘Return to the Planet of the Humans’ with the artist Simon Dykes restored to human skin and left to rot in sheltered housing in an unsplendid and uncaring London. The most mordant and bleak of Self’s story collections, Dr Mukti and Other Tales of Woe is also one of the more splendid and consistent.
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