The Book of Dave - Couverture souple

Self, Will

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0241954606 ISBN 13 : 9780241954607

Editeur : Penguin, 2011

Synopsis

Shuttling between the recent past and a far-off future where England is terribly altered, this book presents a strange and troubling mirror held up to our times: disturbing, satirizing and vilifying who and what we think we are.

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

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 )

Présentation de l'éditeur :

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.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Penguin
• Date d'édition: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0241954606
• ISBN 13: 9780241954607
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 512