Joe Dunthorne

Fresh, sharp and wickedly funny, a tragicomic tale of modern living from the author of SubmarineRay is not a bad guy. He mostly did not cheat on his heavily pregnant wife. He only sometimes despises every one of his friends. And though his career as a freelance tech journalist is dismal and he spends his afternoons churning out third-rate listicles in his boxer briefs, he dreams of making a difference. But Ray is about to learn that his special talent is for making things worse.Brace yourself for a wickedly funny look at the modern everyman. The Adulterants is an uproarious tale of competitively sensitive men and catastrophic open marriages, riots on the streets of London and Internet righteousness, and one man's valiant quest to come of age in his thirties. With lacerating wit and wry affection, Joe Dunthorne dissects the urban millennial psyche of a man too old to be an actual millennial.

A fresh and funny coming-of-age novel, comprable to "The Secret Diary Of Adrian Mole". Oliver Tate''s family is falling apart, so he takes it upon himself to bring it back together. But he has other things on his mind, like losing his virginity before he turns 16.

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.

Dunthorne, Joe Dunthorne's brilliant first novel, set in Wales, is a portrait of a boy on the brink of manhood. The story of Oliver Tate's 15th year combines delusion and insight, worldliness and childish innocence to heartbreaking and hilarious effect.

The long-awaited debut from the poet, novelist and journalist Joe Dunthorne. He was one of the most popular of our Faber New Poets (2010), and this collection has all the appeal of his acclaimed fiction: arch, playful and self-aware; truly funny and enviably cool.

This is the story of one mans dream to edit a groundbreaking contemporary poetry anthology, of how that dream was actually a lot of work, what with reading many bad poems and also competent ones and handwriting rejection letters and using his wifes family money to pay postage and production costs, all while trying to bounce his newborn son to sleep. It is the story of the epiphanies that come with extreme tiredness: that maybe, just maybe, the greatest poetry book of all is one that contains no poems.

From the wickedly funny author of Submarine comes a hilarious new tragicomedy -- a screwball tale of millennial angst, pre-midlife crises and one man's valiant quest to come of age in his thirties. 'Blisteringly funny and brimming with caustic charm - a joyous diagnosis of our modern ills that made me laugh out loud even when it was breaking my heart' Paul Murray, author of Skippy Dies 'Every lost generation needs its memorial and now at last we have The Adulterants. It's very sad and very funny and written with an innocence that in fact is diabolical' Adam Thirlwell, author of Lurid and Cute Ray is not a bad guy. He mostly did not cheat on his heavily pregnant wife. He only sometimes despises every one of his friends. His career as a freelance tech journalist is dismal but he dreams of making a difference one day. But Ray is about to learn that his special talent is for making things worse. Brace yourself for an encounter with the modern everyman. Enter the world of ironic misanthropy and semi-ironic underachievement, of competitively sensitive men, catastrophic open marriages, and lots of Internet righteousness. With lacerating wit and wry affection, Joe Dunthorne dissects the urban millennial psyche of a man too old to be an actual millennial

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...

Off beat irreverent and subversive a Jewish family memoir about convenient delusions and unsayable truths from the acclaimed author of the cult classic novel Submarine A gripping story of family secrets and chemical warfare and a tale of one writer s search for a reliable past Joe Dunthorne has written a contemporary classic Andrew O HaganJoe Dunthorne had always wanted to write about his great grandfather Siegfried an eccentric scientist who invented radioactive toothpaste and a Jewish refugee from the Nazis who returned to Germany under cover of the Berlin Olympics to pull off a heist on his own home The only problem was that Siegfried had already written the book of his life an unpublished two thousand page memoir so dry and rambling that none of his living descendants had managed to read it And as it turned out when Joe finally read the manuscript himself it told a very different story from the one he thought he knew Thus begins a mystery which stretches across the twentieth century and around the world from Berlin to Ankara New York Glasgow and eventually London a mystery about the production of something much more sinister than toothpaste On the trail of one jolly grandpa with a patchy psychiatric history and an encyclopaedic knowledg

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 . . .Film tie-in edition of the freshest, funniest UK debut of 2009 - to accompany the major new film by comedy star Richard Ayoade.

Ray Morris est un journaliste free-lance au physique banal, un Londonien de classe moyenne légèrement paranoïaque entouréd’amis choisis et fidèles et d’une femme très enceinte, Garthene. Ray est le g

From the wickedly funny author of Submarine comes a hilarious new tragicomedy - a screwball tale of millennial angst, pre-midlife crises and one mans valiant quest to come of age in his thirties.Blisteringly funny and brimming with caustic charm - a joyous diagnosis of our modern ills that made me laugh out loud even when it was breaking my heart Paul Murray, author of Skippy DiesRay is not a bad guy. He mostly did not cheat on his heavily pregnant wife. He only sometimes despises every one of his friends. His career as a freelance tech journalist is dismal but he dreams of making a difference one day. But Ray is about to learn that his special talent is for making things worse.Brace yourself for an encounter with the modern everyman. Enter the world of ironic misanthropy and semi-ironic underachievement, of competitively sensitive men, catastrophic open marriages, and lots of Internet righteousness. With lacerating wit and wry affection, Joe Dunthorne dissects the urban millennial psyche of a man too old to be an actual millennial.Every lost generation needs its memorial and now at last we have The Adulterants. Its very sad and very funny and written with an innocence that in fact is diabolical Adam Thirlwell, author of Lurid and Cute

Off-beat, irreverent and subversive a Jewish family memoir about convenient delusions and unsayable truths, from the acclaimed author of the cult classic novel, SubmarineThe best book Ive read in the past year . . . A masterpieceFinancial TimesA slippery marvel [and] a quixotic voyage into the heart of 20th-century darkness ObserverPoignant and profound, comic and unconventional and genuinely, searingly meaningful The New York TimesJoe Dunthorne had always wanted to write about his great-grandfather, Siegfried: an eccentric scientist who invented radioactive toothpaste and a Jewish refugee from the Nazis who returned to Germany under cover of the Berlin Olympics to pull off a heist on his own home.The only problem was that Siegfried had already written the book of his life an unpublished, two-thousand page memoir so dry and rambling that none of his living descendants had managed to read it. And, as it turned out when Joe finally read the manuscript himself, it told a very different story from the one he thought he knewThus begins a mystery which stretches across the twentieth century and around the world, from Berlin to Ankara, New York, Glasgow and eventually London a mystery about the production of something much more sinister than toothpaste. On the trail of one jolly grandpa with a patchy psychiatric history and an encyclopaedic knowledge of poison gases, Joe Dunthorne is forced to confront the uncomfortable questions that lie at the heart of every family. Can we ever understand where we come from? Is every family in the end a work of fiction? And even if the truth can be found will we be able to live with it?Children of Radium is a remarkable, searching meditation on individual and collective inheritance. Witty and wry, deeply humane and endlessly surprising, it considers the long half-life of trauma, the weight of guilt and the ever-evasive nature of the truth.

Submarine is the wickedly funny first novel by Joe DunthorneNOW AN ACCLAIMED FILM BY RICHARD AYOADEMeet Oliver Tate, fifteen years old. 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 . . . Brilliant . . . laugh-out-loud enjoyable. The sharpest, funniest, rudest account of a troubled teenagers coming-of-age since The Catcher in the Rye IndependentA richly amusing tale of mock GCSEs, sex, death and challenging vocabulary . . . Excruciatingly funny incidents and cracking gagsTime OutExcellent . . . the wonderful, Day-Glo certainties of adolescence have rarely been so brilliantly laid outIndependent on SundayPerfectly pitched . . . transplants The Catcher in the Rye to south Wales . . . Dunthorne can make you laugh like did during double physics on a wet Wednesday afternoonObserverA brilliant first novel by a young man of ferocious comic talentThe TimesJoe Dunthorne was born and brought up in Swansea. He is the author of 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. His debut poetry pamphlet was published by Faber and Faber. He lives in London.www.joedunthorne.com

Wild Abandon is Joe Dunthornes outrageously funny novel of life in a Welsh commune.Kate and Albert, sister and brother, are not yet the last two human beings on earth, but Albert has high hopes. The secluded communal farm they grew up on is - after twenty years - disintegrating, along with their parents marriage. They both try to escape: Kate, at seventeen, to suburbia and Albert, at eleven, into preparations for the end of the world.However, Don, the groups leader and their father, is convinced he can save everything, if only he can bring his followers into the modern age. How? By force of personality, strict self-sufficiency and a rave with a 10k soundsystem. Understandably, Albert and Kate have other ideas . . .Populated by flawed, occasionally exasperating, lovable and, above all, thoroughly imagined characters, Wild Abandon is about what happens to children when parents become consumed by their beliefs . . . A terrific novel Nick Hornby, Guardian, Books of the YearA joy. Warm, funny, cleverSunday TimesAn engaging, emotionally stimulating, chuckle-out-loud readTime OutOccupying a terrain that lies between the very British humour of Jonathan Coe and the zeitgeisty ambition of Douglas Coupland . . . insightful comic writing . . . that manages to be both tender and bitingIndependent on SundayA creation of some genius. Dunthorne is a naturally comic writerDaily TelegraphJust as funny and acutely perceptive [as] SubmarineIndependentJoe Dunthorne was born and brought up in Swansea. He is the author of 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. His debut poetry pamphlet was published by Faber and Faber. He lives in London.www.joedunthorne.com

Are we making a bomb? This is a trust exercise, like in drama, she says. Are we making a bomb as a trust exercise?Fifteen-year-old Oliver Tate is terrified that his family is falling apart. He fears for his depressed father and is convinced that his mother is having an affair with her capoeira teacher. Deciding that it is down to him alone to save his parents marriage, Oliver sets out on a campaign to rescue it while also embarking on an even more ambitious goal: to lose his virginity before hes sixteen to the seductive but slightly pyromaniacal Jordana . . .The sharpest, funniest, rudest account of a troubled teenagers coming of age since The Catcher in the Rye Independent A brilliant first novel by a young man of ferocious comic talent The Times

Conegui l#Oliver Tate, un adolescent de quinze anys. Convençut que el seu pare està sumit en una depressió i que la seva mare té una aventura amb un instructor de capoeira, s#embarca en una hilara