Bookbot

The Book of Dave

A Relevation of the Recent Past and the Distant Future

Autores

Más información sobre el libro

When East-End cabdriver Dave Rudman's wife takes from him his only son, Dave pens a gripping text – a compilation about everything from the environment, Arabs, and American tourists to sex, Prozac, and cabby lore – that captures all of his frustrations and anxieties about his contemporary world. Dave buries the book in his ex-wife's Hampstead backyard, intending it for his son, Carl, when he comes of age. Five hundred years later, Dave's book is found by the inhabitants of Ham, a primitive archipelago in post-apocalyptic London, where it becomes a sacred text of biblical proportions and the template for a new civilization. Only one islander, Symum, remains incredulous. But, after he is imprisoned for heresy, his son Carl must journey through the Forbidden Zone and into the terrifying heart of New London to find the only thing that will reveal the truth once and for all: a second Book of Dave that repudiates the first. <i>The Book of Dave</i> is a profound meditation upon the nature of religion and a caustic satire of contemporary life.

Compra de libros

The Book of Dave, Will Self

Idioma
Publicado en
2007
product-detail.submit-box.info.binding
(Tapa blanda)
Te avisaremos por correo electrónico en cuanto lo localicemos.

Métodos de pago

Nadie lo ha calificado todavía.Añadir reseña

Título
The Book of Dave
Subtítulo
A Relevation of the Recent Past and the Distant Future
Idioma
Inglés
Autores
Will Self
Editorial
Penguin Books
Publicado en
2007
Formato
Tapa blanda
Páginas
495
ISBN10
0141030682
ISBN13
9780141030685
Serie
Descripción
When East-End cabdriver Dave Rudman's wife takes from him his only son, Dave pens a gripping text – a compilation about everything from the environment, Arabs, and American tourists to sex, Prozac, and cabby lore – that captures all of his frustrations and anxieties about his contemporary world. Dave buries the book in his ex-wife's Hampstead backyard, intending it for his son, Carl, when he comes of age. Five hundred years later, Dave's book is found by the inhabitants of Ham, a primitive archipelago in post-apocalyptic London, where it becomes a sacred text of biblical proportions and the template for a new civilization. Only one islander, Symum, remains incredulous. But, after he is imprisoned for heresy, his son Carl must journey through the Forbidden Zone and into the terrifying heart of New London to find the only thing that will reveal the truth once and for all: a second Book of Dave that repudiates the first. <i>The Book of Dave</i> is a profound meditation upon the nature of religion and a caustic satire of contemporary life.