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Submarine

Joe Dunthorne

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English
Penguin
19 May 2011
Film tie-in edition of the freshest, funniest UK debut of 2009 -

to accompany the major new film by comedy star Richard Ayoade

Meet Oliver Tate, 15. Convinced that his father is depressed (""Depression comes in bouts. Like boxing. Dad is in the blue corner"") and his mother is having an affair with her capoeira teacher, ""a hippy-looking twonk"", he embarks on a hilariously misguided campaign to bring the family back together. Meanwhile, he is also trying to lose his virginity - before he turns sixteeen - to his pyromaniac girlfriend Jordana. Will Oliver succeed in either aim? Submerge yourself in Submarine and find out . . .
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Imprint:   Penguin
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Edition:   Film Tie-In ed
Dimensions:   Height: 199mm,  Width: 129mm,  Spine: 20mm
Weight:   213g
ISBN:   9780241955154
ISBN 10:   0241955157
Pages:   304
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Joe Dunthorne was born and brought up in Swansea. His poetry has been featured on Channel 4 and Radio 3 and he has performed at festivals including Hay-on-Wye and Latitude. Now twenty-eight, Joe lives in London. Submarine is his first novel.

Reviews for Submarine

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


  • Long-listed for Desmond Elliott Prize 2008
  • Long-listed for Desmond Elliott Prize 2008.
  • Long-listed for Desmond Elliott Prize.
  • Short-listed for Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize 2008
  • Short-listed for Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize.
  • Shortlisted for Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize 2008.

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