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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Joe DunthornePublisher: Penguin Books Ltd Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd Edition: Media tie-in Dimensions: Width: 12.90cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 19.80cm Weight: 0.213kg ISBN: 9780241955154ISBN 10: 0241955157 Pages: 304 Publication Date: 03 March 2011 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsReviewsA New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice<br> <br> [Joe Dunthorne is] probably destined to be compared with Mark Haddon and Roddy Doyle. --The Miami Herald <br><br> This absolutely winning debut novel isn't so much a coming-of-age tale as it is a reflection on what it means to be a certain age and of an uncertain mind. -- Los Angeles Times <br> <br> A brilliant first novel by a young man of ferocious comic talent. -- The Times (London)<br> <br> [Dunthorne's] precocious talent and cheerful fondness for the teenage male are showcased in Submarine . . . . Oliver's voice is funny and dead-on. -- The New York Times Book Review <br> <br> Preternaturally wise, slightly devious and highly entertaining. -- USA Today 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 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 Author InformationJoe 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. www.joedunthorne.com Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |