Submarine
  • Published: 3 September 2019
  • ISBN: 9780241986462
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $22.99
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Submarine

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Paperback
3 Sep 2019
EBook
12 Jan 2009
Paperback
19 May 2011
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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 . . .
  • Published: 3 September 2019
  • ISBN: 9780241986462
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $22.99
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About the author

Joe Dunthorne

Joe Dunthorne was born and brought up in Swansea. His poetry has been featured on BBC Channel 4 and Radio 3; he has perfored at festivals including Hay-On-Wye and Latitude. Now twenty-six, Joe lives in London. Submarine is his first novel.

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Praise for Submarine

A brilliant first novel by a young man of ferocious comic talent

The Times

Dunthorne captures the mores of Britain today better than novelists twice his age

New Statesman

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

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

A richly amusing tale of mock GCSEs, sex, death and challenging vocabulary . . . Excruciatingly funny incidents and cracking gags

Time Out

Excellent . . . the wonderful, Day-Glo certainties of adolescence have rarely been so brilliantly laid out

Independent on Sunday

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