The speaker (named Joe in this poem, as if to leave no doubt) gradually reveals his apparent spontaneity (the gifting of W.G. In a slightly different manner, ‘A sestina for my friends’ sends up the pretensions and potential pomposity of the poet. It makes you feel terribly helpless really, At the same time ‘Eating Out’ undercuts any sense of self-righteousness by satirising the middle-class complacency of the speaker:Ī big steel cage in the alley out the back, His earliest pieces, such as ‘Intelligent Animals’ (a poem written for Liberty about the treatment of terrorist suspects) and ‘Eating Out’ (a poem about food, excess and waste), display a strong social conscience. He lives in London.Oliver, the obnoxious anti-hero of Joe Dunthorne’s debut novel, is nothing if not a lover of words, and Dunthorne himself is essentially a poet. His debut poetry pamphlet was published by Faber and Faber. 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. Joe Dunthorne was born and brought up in Swansea. 'A brilliant first novel by a young man of ferocious comic talent' The Times Dunthorne can make you laugh like did during double physics on a wet Wednesday afternoon' Observer transplants The Catcher in the Rye to south Wales. the wonderful, Day-Glo certainties of adolescence have rarely been so brilliantly laid out' Independent on Sunday Excruciatingly funny incidents and cracking gags' Time Out 'A richly amusing tale of mock GCSEs, sex, death and challenging vocabulary.
The sharpest, funniest, rudest account of a troubled teenager's coming-of-age since The Catcher in the Rye' Independent Will Oliver succeed in either aim? Submerge yourself in Submarine and find out.
Meanwhile, he is also trying to lose his virginity - before he turns sixteeen - to his pyromaniac girlfriend Jordana. 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. Convinced that his father is depressed ('Depression comes in bouts. Submarine is the wickedly funny first novel by Joe Dunthorne
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