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Submarine

Joe Dunthorne

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English
Penguin Books Ltd
03 September 2019
A funny, fresh coming-of-age story, now a Penguin Essential

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 Books Ltd
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 179mm,  Width: 112mm,  Spine: 19mm
Weight:   169g
ISBN:   9780241986462
ISBN 10:   024198646X
Series:   Penguin Essentials
Pages:   304
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Joe Dunthorne was born and brought up in Swansea. He is the author of three novels and one collection of poetry, including 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. Children of Radium is his first work of non-fiction. He lives in London. www.joedunthorne.com

Reviews for Submarine

Dunthorne captures the mores of Britain today better than novelists twice his age. He is sure to write books that declare more than their vocabulary * New Statesman * Dunthorne captures the mores of Britain today better than novelists twice his age. He is sure to write books that declare more than their vocabulary * New Statesman * Excellent . . . the wonderful, Day-Glo certainties of adolescence have rarely been so brilliantly laid out * Independent on Sunday * A richly amusing tale of mock GCSEs, sex, death and challenging vocabulary . . . Excruciatingly funny incidents and cracking gags * Time Out * 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 * 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 * Dunthorne captures the mores of Britain today better than novelists twice his age * New Statesman * A brilliant first novel by a young man of ferocious comic talent * The Times *


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

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