Submarine
Published on 6. June 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
304 pages
978-0-241-98646-2 (ISBN)
Description
'Are we making a bomb?'
'This is a trust exercise, like in drama,' she says.
'Are we making a bomb as a trust exercise?'
Fifteen-year-old Oliver Tate is terrified that his family is falling apart. He fears for his depressed father and is convinced that his mother is having an affair with her capoeira teacher. Deciding that it is down to him alone to save his parents' marriage, Oliver sets out on a campaign to rescue it while also embarking on an even more ambitious goal: to lose his virginity before he's sixteen to the seductive but slightly pyromaniacal Jordana . . .
'The sharpest, funniest, rudest account of a troubled teenager's coming of age since The Catcher in the Rye' Independent
'A brilliant first novel by a young man of ferocious comic talent' The Times
'This is a trust exercise, like in drama,' she says.
'Are we making a bomb as a trust exercise?'
Fifteen-year-old Oliver Tate is terrified that his family is falling apart. He fears for his depressed father and is convinced that his mother is having an affair with her capoeira teacher. Deciding that it is down to him alone to save his parents' marriage, Oliver sets out on a campaign to rescue it while also embarking on an even more ambitious goal: to lose his virginity before he's sixteen to the seductive but slightly pyromaniacal Jordana . . .
'The sharpest, funniest, rudest account of a troubled teenager's coming of age since The Catcher in the Rye' Independent
'A brilliant first novel by a young man of ferocious comic talent' The Times
Reviews / Votes
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 *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Illustrations
None
Dimensions
Height: 180 mm
Width: 113 mm
Thickness: 32 mm
Weight
170 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-241-98646-2 (9780241986462)
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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.
www.joedunthorne.com
www.joedunthorne.com