The Book of Dave (Penguin Ink) - Softcover

Self, Will

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0241954606 ISBN 13: 9780241954607

Publisher: Penguin, 2011

Synopsis

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 Dave is a strange and troubling mirror held up to our times: disturbing, satirizing and vilifying who and what we think we are.

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Review:

Funny, frightening, moving. Self's most successful novel to date (Daily Telegraph)

Extraordinarily brilliant and engaging ... tender and strange (Philip Hensher Spectator)

Dazzling, hilarious ... one of the finest and funniest London novels in years (Time Out)

Self writes his most imaginative, most dazzling and most moving book yet (Rick Moody Esquire)

Mindboggling, darkly hilarious ... Self makes us look at ourselves; once again, he fills us with disquiet. A fascinating book (Evening Standard)

Vivid, visceral and breathtakingly ambitious, this is Self's best yet (GQ)

About the Author:

Will Self was born in London in 1961. He is the author of seven novels, five collections of short stories, three novellas and seven works of non-fiction. He is also a journalist and regular broadcaster on television and radio. He lives in London.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0241954606
• ISBN 13: 9780241954607
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 512