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The Book of Dave

Autor Will Self
en Limba Engleză Paperback – mar 2007
The Book of Daveis Booker-shortlisted author Will Self's dazzling sixth novel
What if a demented London cabbie called Dave Rudman wrote a book to his estranged son to give him some fatherly advice? What if that book was buried in Hampstead and hundreds of years later, when rising sea levels have put London underwater, spawned a religion? What if one man decided to question life according to Dave? And what if Dave had indeed made a mistake?
Shuttling between the recent past and a far-off future where England is terribly altered,The Book of Daveis a strange and troubling mirror held up to our times: disturbing, satirizing and vilifying who and what we think we are. At once a meditation upon the nature of received religion, a love story, a caustic satire of contemporary urban life and a historical detective story set in the far future - this compulsive novel will be enjoyed by readers everywhere, including fans of Martin Amis and Anthony Burgess'sA Clockwork Orange.
'Vivid, visceral and breathtakingly ambitious, this is Self's best yet'GQ
'Mindboggling ... darkly hilarious ... A fascinating book'Evening Standard
Will Self is the author of nine novels includingCock and Bull;My Idea of Fun; Great Apes; How the Dead Live; Dorian, an Imitation; The Book of Dave; The Butt; Walking to HollywoodandUmbrella, which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. He has written five collections of shorter fiction and three novellas:The Quantity Theory of Insanity; Grey Area; License to Hug; The Sweet Smell of Psychosis; Design Faults in the Volvo 760 Turbo; Tough, Tough Toys for Tough, Tough Boys; Dr. Mukti and Other Tales of WoeandLiver: A Fictional Organ with a Surface Anatomy of Four Lobes. Self has also compiled a number of nonfiction works, includingThe Undivided Self: Selected Stories; Junk Mail; Perfidious Man; Sore Sites; Feeding Frenzy; Psychogeography; Psycho TooandThe Unbearable Lightness of Being a Prawn Cracker.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780141014548
ISBN-10: 0141014547
Pagini: 512
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.35 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

Will Selfis the author of many novels and books of non-fiction, includingGreat Apes,The Book of Dave,How the Dead Live, which was shortlisted for the Whitbread Novel of the Year 2002,The Butt, winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction 2008,Umbrella, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2012, andShark. His most recent novel,Phone, was shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize. He lives in south London.