The Adult

Joe Stretch

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English

Vintage
15 August 2013

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Winner of the Somerset Maugham Prize and shortlisted for the Portico Prize - The Adult is a novel of life in the shadow of the limelight, and other twenty-first-century tribulations.

WINNER OF THE SOMERSET MAUGHAM PRIZE

'Funny, sad, bewildering and painfully honest, it's a must-read for all fans of Joe Dunthorne's Submarine' Emerald Street

Jim Thorne. He wants to understand love. His mum. Her three sisters have epic perms. And they're famous. His dad. He is focused on a vital question-

Mario or Sonic? It's England, 1989-2009. So expect a little history. The dolphin's name is Dilly.

By: Joe Stretch
Imprint: Vintage
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 16mm
Weight: 181g
ISBN: 9780099570288
ISBN 10: 0099570289
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 15 August 2013
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Joe Stretch was born in 1982 and brought up in Lancashire. He moved to Manchester at the age of 18 to study politics at Manchester University. His band, Performance, in which he is lead singer and lyricist, released their debut album in 2007.

Reviews for The Adult

The Adult is a tremendous novel. It takes its place with some of the very best of its genre - the right of passage. Very few people can do it well. Stretch has done it superbly well. I'm not surprised it won the Somerset Maugham Award. I'm sure it will go on to be widely read and cited. I do hope so -- Melvyn Bragg Very funny, beautifully wrought -- Toby Clements Daily Telegraph A properly bollock-droppingly brilliant novel Dazed & Confused I knew from the first page that this was going to be a very funny book, but I didn't realise it would have so much heart and be so beautiful -- Evie Wyld So enjoyable... The Adult is closer to a state-of-the-nation novel than any typical bildungsroman Guardian