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liver a fictional organ with a surface anatomy of four lobes
british satirist will self spins four interconnected stories into a brilliantly insightful commentary on human foibles and resilience . p will selfs remarkable new stories center on the disease and decay that target the largest of human organs the liver . set in locales as toxic as a london drinking club and mundane as a clinic in an ultraorderly swiss city the stories distill the hard lives of their subjects whether alcoholic drug addict or cancer patient . i n fois humane set at the plantation club its always a tuesday afternoon in midwinter and the shivering denizens of this dusty realm spend their days observing its proprietor as he force feeds the barman vodkaspiked beer . joyce beddoes protagonist of leberknodel has terminal liver cancer and is on her way to be euthanized in zurich when miraculously her disease goes into remission . in prometheus a young copywriter at londons most cutting edge ad agency has his liver nibbled by a griffon thrice daily but hes always in the pink the following morning and ready to make that killer pitch . if blood and bile flow through liverish london the two arteries meet in birdy num num where career junky billy chobham performs little services for the customers who gather to wait for the man while in his blood a virus pullulates . a moving portrayal of egos appetites and addictions liver is an extraordinary achievement .