The Book of Dave: A Revelation of the Recent Past and the Distant Future - Brossura

Self, Will

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ISBN 10: 0802129269 ISBN 13: 9780802129260

Casa editrice: Grove Pr, 2019

Riassunto

One of Will Self’s best-loved novels, newly reissued by Grove, The Book of Dave begins when East End cabdriver Dave Rudman’s wife takes from him his only son. In response, Dave pens a savage jeremiad against the contemporary world that filters his fearful bigotry through religious mania, with a generous dose of the London cabby’s unique knowledge of the sprawling city. Dave buries the book in his ex-wife’s Hampstead backyard, intending it for his son, Carl, when he comes of age. Five hundred years later, Dave’s book is found by the inhabitants of Ham, a primitive archipelago in post-apocalyptic London, where it becomes a sacred text of biblical proportions and the template for a new civilization.

Equal parts dystopian fantasy, religious allegory, detective story, and tribute to the sometimes fraught relations between fathers and sons, The Book of Dave is an ingenious meditation upon the nature of religion and a caustic satire of contemporary life.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Will Self is the author of many novels and books of nonfiction, including Great Apes; How the Dead Live, which was shortlisted for the Whitbread Novel of the Year; The Butt, winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction; Umbrella, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize; Shark; and Phone. He lives in South London.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Grove Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2019
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0802129269
• ISBN 13: 9780802129260
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 495
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• Persona responsabile: non disponibile