$33.32
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
19 May 2011
Summary
Film tie-in edition of the freshest, funniest UK debut of 2009 - to accompany the major new film by comedy star Richard Ayoade
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…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241955154 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0241955157 |
| Author: | Joe Dunthorne |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Edition: | Film Tie-In ed |
| Release Date: | 19 May 2011 |
| Weight: | 222g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 22mm |
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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 *
About The Author
Joe Dunthorne
Joe Dunthorne was born and brought up in Swansea. He is the author of 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. A collection of his poetry is published as Faber New Poets 5. Joe Dunthorne lives in London and The Adulterants is his third novel.
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