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Novels by Will Self (Study Guide): The Book of Dave, the Butt, How the Dead Live, Cock and Bull, the Sweet Smell of Psychosis, My Idea of Fun

Novels by Will Self (Study Guide): The Book of Dave, the Butt, How the Dead Live, Cock and Bull, the Sweet Smell of Psychosis, My Idea of Fun


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This is nonfiction commentary. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: The Book of Dave, the Butt, How the Dead Live, Cock and Bull, the Sweet Smell of Psychosis, My Idea of Fun, Dorian, an Imitation, Great Apes. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: The Book of Dave is a 2006 novel by English author Will Self. It tells the story of an angry and mentally-ill London Taxi driver named Dave Rudman, who writes and has printed on metal a book of his rantings against women and thoughts on custody rights for fathers. These stem from his anger with his ex-wife, Michelle, who he believes is unfairly keeping him from his son. Equally influential in Dave's book is The Knowledgethe intimate familiarity with the city of London required of its cabbies. Dave buries the book, which is discovered centuries later and used as the sacred text for a misogynistic religion that takes hold in the remnants of southern England and London following catastrophic flooding. The future portions of the book are set over 500 years after its discovery. No real indication of how long the book sat undiscovered is given. The book alternates between Dave's experience and that of the future devotees of the religion inspired by him. Much of the dialogue in The Book of Dave is written in Mockney, a dialect of English derived from Cockney, "The Knowledge," text-messaging, and vocabulary peculiar to the late 20th and early 21st centuries. For example, the generic term for a hot meal is "curry" and for breakfast, "Starbucks." Spellings are often idiosyncratic, but a glossary is provided. The book resembles, in part, Riddley Walker, a 1981 novel by Russell Hoban for which Self provided an introduction to the new 2002 edition. According to the author himself, writing in The Guardian in 2007, he was inspired to write the book after havi...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=583936


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781157348658
  • Publisher: Books LLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Books LLC
  • Height: 152 mm
  • No of Pages: 30
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Weight: 59 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1157348653
  • Publisher Date: 14 Sep 2010
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: The Book of Dave, the Butt, How the Dead Live, Cock and Bull, the Sweet Smell of Psychosis, My Idea of Fun
  • Width: 229 mm


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