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.

The Adulterants has been a long time in the writing so I'm excited and relieved to finally pass it into the hands of a publisher that I love.'ĭunthorne's 2008 debut Submarine (Penguin) was made into a film directed by Richard Ayoade released in 2010. It was followed by Wild Abandon (Random House) in 2011.Submarine is the wickedly funny first novel by Joe Dunthorne

It is a subversive joy to read.'ĭunthorne added: ''I am very happy to be working again with Simon and the wonderful team at Hamish Hamilton. Prosser commented: 'Joe Dunthorne’s unique combination of original voice, poetic vision, natural wit and daring imagination come together in a tour de force, breathing new life into one of the novel’s most canonical subjects – marriage and adultery. French rights have been pre-empted by Gallimard. Simon Prosser, publishing director of Hamish Hamilton and Penguin Books, acquired British and Commonwealth rights from Georgia Garrett at RCW. Throughout a series of escalating catastrophes, he is said to keep up a merciless mental commentary on the foibles and failings of those around him, and the vicissitudes of modern urban life: internet trolls, sadistic estate agents, open marriages and the threat posed by sensitive men. The Adulterants is narrated by Ray, a 30-something freelance tech journalist living with his pregnant wife in Hackney, staring down the barrel of long-deferred adulthood.ĭescribed as chronically underachieving and empathy-impaired, Ray is a deadpan antihero whom the readers will end up rooting for, as fatherhood looms and his life implodes.

Hamish Hamilton has acquired a new novel by Submarine author Joe Dunthorne.

Submarine by Joe Dunthorne