The Book of Dave - Rilegato

Self, Will

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ISBN 10: 1596911239 ISBN 13: 9781596911239

Casa editrice: Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA, 2006

Riassunto

Dave Rudman, a disgruntled East End taxi driver, writes down his woes, frustrations, and pet peeves and buries them, only to have them discovered five hundred years later and used as the sacred text for a religion that has taken hold in the flooded remnants of London.

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L'autore:

Will Self is the acclaimed author of such books as The Quantity Theory of Insanity, Great Apes, and How the Dead Live. He won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and was shortlisted for the Whitbread Book of the Year. Will Self lives in London.

Product Description:

When cabdriver Dave RudmanÂ's wife of five years deserts him for another man, taking their only child with her, he is thrown into a tailspin of doubt and discontent. Fearing his son will never know his father, Dave pens a gripping text-part memoir, part deranged philosophical treatise, and part handbook of Â"the KnowledgeÂ" learned by all London cab drivers. Meant for the boy when he comes of age, the book captures the frustration and anxiety of modern life. Five hundred years later, the Book of Dave is discovered by the inhabitants on the island of Ham, where it becomes a sacred text of biblical proportion, and its author is revered as a mighty prophet. An exceptional copy; fine in an equally fine dw, now mylar-sleeved. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new. ; 495 pages; Description: 495 p. ; 25 cm. Subjects: Taxicab drivers --Fathers and sons --Sacred books --Fiction

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• Editore: Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1596911239
• ISBN 13: 9781596911239
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 416