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DescriptionOne of Will Selfs best-loved novels, newly reissued by Grove, The Book of Dave begins when East End cabdriver Dave Rudmans wife takes from him his only son. In response, Dave pens a savage jeremiad against the contemporary world that filters his fearful bigotry through religious mania, with a generous dose of the London cabbys unique knowledge of the sprawling city. Dave buries the book in his ex-wifes Hampstead backyard, intending it for his son, Carl, when he comes of age. Five hundred years later, Daves 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. Equal parts dystopian fantasy, religious allegory, detective story, and tribute to the sometimes fraught relations between fathers and sons, The Book of Dave is an ingenious meditation upon the nature of religion and a caustic satire of contemporary life.About the AuthorWill Self is the author of many novels and books of nonfiction, including Great Apes; How the Dead Live, which was shortlisted for the Whitbread Novel of the Year; The Butt, winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction; Umbrella, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize; Shark; and Phone. He lives in South London.
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Brand: Grove Press
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