The book of Dave
Subtitle: a revelation of the recent past and the distant future
By: Will Self
Series: Penguin ink; Penguin ink series
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 495
ISBN-13: 9780241954607
Subjects: Religion; Sacred books; Taxicab drivers; Fiction
Description: GENERAL & LITERARY FICTION. What if a demented London cabbie called Dave Rudman wrote a book to his estranged son to give him some fatherly advice? What if that book was buried in Hampstead and hundreds of years later, when rising sea levels have put London underwater, spawned a religion? What if one man decided to question life according to Dave? And what if Dave had indeed made a mistake? Shuttling between the recent past and a far-off future where England is terribly altered, "The Book of Dave" is a strange and troubling mirror held up to our times: disturbing, satirizing and vilifying who and what we think we are.