So, here we go: Submarine is not the new Catcher in the Rye. He lives in London.If the journalists writing for the Observer, the Independent, the Guardian and every other paper and literary magazine – from whose reviews someone somewhere selects all those quotes that fill the back cover and the first couple of pages of the average English-language novel – wouldn’t feel the need to compare every single coming-of-age story to the Catcher in the Rye, then perhaps I wouldn’t feel the need to start all my posts about coming-of-age stories with saying: no, this novel is not the new Catcher in the Rye, either. 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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