The Book of Dave: A Revelation of the Recent Past and the Distant Future
Language: English
Published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2006
- Hardcover
- Used

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- Title
- The Book of Dave: A Revelation of the Recent Past and the Distant Future
- Author
- Will Self
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication year
- 2006
- Condition
- Fair
- Binding
- Hardback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1596911239
- ISBN 13
- 9781596911239
When cabdriver Dave Rudman's wife of five years deserts him for another man, taking their only child with her, he is thrown into a tailspin of doubt and discontent. Fearing his son will never know his father, Dave pens a gripping text―part memoir, part deranged philosophical treatise, and part handbook of "the Knowledge" learned by all London cab drivers. Meant for the boy when he comes of age, the book captures the frustration and anxiety of modern life. Five hundred years later, the Book of Dave is discovered by the inhabitants on the island of Ham, where it becomes a sacred text of biblical proportion, and its author is revered as a mighty prophet.
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About the Author
Will Self is the acclaimed author of such books as The Quantity Theory of Insanity, Great Apes, and How the Dead Live. He won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and was shortlisted for the Whitbread Book of the Year. Will Self lives in London.
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