Book Of Dave

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The Book of Dave" is Booker-shortlisted author Will Self's dazzling sixth novel. What if a demented London cabbie called Dave Rudman wrote a book to his estranged son to give him some fatherly advice? What if that book was buried in Hampstead & hundreds of years later when rising sea levels have put London underwater spawned a religion? What if one man decided to question life according to Dave? & what if Dave had indeed made a mistake? Shuttling between the recent past & a far-off future where England is terribly altered " The Book of Dave" is a strange & troubling mirror held up to our times: disturbing satirizing & vilifying who & what we think we are. At once a meditation upon the nature of received religion a love story a caustic satire of contemporary urban life & a historical detective story set in the far future
- this compulsive novel will be enjoyed by readers everywhere including fans of Martin Amis & Anthony Burgess' "A Clockwork Orange". " Vivid visceral & breathtakingly ambitious this is Self's best yet". ("GQ"). " Mindboggling.. .darkly hilarious...A fascinating book". (" Evening Standard"). Will Self is the author of nine novels including " Cock & Bull"; " My Idea of Fun"; " Great Apes"; " How the Dead Live"; " Dorian an Imitation"; " The Book of Dave"; " The Butt"; " Walking to Hollywood" & " Umbrella" which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. He has written five collections of shorter fiction & three novellas: " The Quantity Theory of Insanity"; " Grey Area"; " License to Hug"; " The Sweet Smell of Psychosis"; " Design Faults in the Volvo 760 Turbo"; " Tough Tough Toys for Tough Tough Boys"; " Dr. Mukti & Other Tales of Woe" & " Liver: A Fictional Organ" with a Surface Anatomy of Four Lobes. Self has also compiled a number of nonfiction works including " The Undivided Self: Selected Stories"; " Junk Mail"; " Perfidious Man"; " Sore Sites"; " Feeding Frenzy"; " Psychogeography"; " Psycho Too" & " The Unbearable Lightness of Being a Prawn Cracker"."