The Book of Dave A Revelation of the Recent Past and the Distant Future

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Publisher's Synopsis

The Book of Dave is based around the rants of Dave Rudman, a disgruntled East End taxi driver, who writes his woes down and buries them ... only to have them discovered 500 years later and used as the sacred text for a religion that has taken hold in the flooded remnants of London.

Will Self's big bold book dares to take on the grand themes in the grand manner. It is at once a profound meditation upon the nature of received religion; a love story; a caustic satire of contemporary urban life and a historical detective story set in the far future.

About the Publisher

Viking

Viking

Viking publishes the widest possible range of literary fiction and non-fiction. Our fiction list includes John le Carr?, Nick Hornby, Will Self, Colm T?ib?n, Nicole Krauss, William Trevor, Catherine O' Flynn, Jonathan Coe, and Joshua Ferris. In non-fiction, the range covers current affairs, history, biography, memoir, narrative non-fiction, music and sport. Our authors include Antony Beevor, Andrew Rawnsley, Mark Bostridge, Sarah Bradford, Saul David, Catherine Bailey, Lynn Barber, Claire Tomalin and John Stubbs.

Book information

ISBN: 9780670914432
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint: Viking
Pub date:
DEWEY: 823.914
DEWEY edition: 22
Language: English
Number of pages: 495
Weight: 808g
Height: 223mm
Width: 158mm
Spine width: 45mm