Submarine
$23.52
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
3 September 2019
Summary
Meet Oliver Tate, 15. Convinced that his father is depressed (“Depression comes in bouts. Like boxing. Dad is in the blue corner”) and his mother is having an affair with her capoeira teacher, “a hippy-looking twonk”, he embarks on a hilariously misguided campaign to bring the family back together. Meanwhile, he is also trying to lose his virginity - before he turns sixteen - to his pyromaniac girlfriend Jordana. Will Oliver succeed in either aim? Submerge yourself in Submarine and find out …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241986462 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 024198646X |
| Author: | Joe Dunthorne |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 3 September 2019 |
| Weight: | 168g |
| Dimensions: | 180mm x 110mm x 20mm |
| Series: | Penguin Essentials |
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A brilliant first novel by a young man of ferocious comic talent
A brilliant first novel by a young man of ferocious comic talent * The Times *
Dunthorne captures the mores of Britain today better than novelists twice his age * New Statesman *
Brilliant … laugh-out-loud enjoyable. The sharpest, funniest, rudest account of a troubled teenager’s coming-of-age since The Catcher in the Rye * Independent *
Transplants The Catcher in the Rye to south Wales … Dunthorne can make you laugh like you did during double physics on a wet Wednesday afternoon * Observer *
A richly amusing tale of mock GCSEs, sex, death and challenging vocabulary … Excruciatingly funny incidents and cracking gags * Time Out *
Excellent … the wonderful, Day-Glo certainties of adolescence have rarely been so brilliantly laid out * Independent on Sunday *
Dunthorne captures the mores of Britain today better than novelists twice his age. He is sure to write books that declare more than their vocabulary * New Statesman *
About The Author
Joe Dunthorne
Joe Dunthorne was born and brought up in Swansea. He is the author of three novels and one collection of poetry, including Submarine, which has been translated into fifteen languages and made into an acclaimed film directed by Richard Ayoade, and Wild Abandon, which won the 2012 Encore Award. Children of Radium is his first work of non-fiction. He lives in London.
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