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Wild Abandon [Paperback]

Joe Dunthorne
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Review

A brilliantly comic tale of commune life going wrong . . . hilarious . . . very funny (The Times )

Warm, insightful comic writing (Independent on Sunday )

Riotous, hilarious, beautifully judged (Psychologies )

Wild Abandon is an engaging and emotionally stimulating, chuckle-out-loud read (Time Out )

As sublimely enjoyable as Submarine (Metro )

British fiction's Bright Young Thing (GQ )

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A joy. Warm, funny, clever Sunday Times An engaging, emotionally stimulating, chuckle-out-loud read Time Out A creation of some genius. Dunthorne is a naturally comic writer Daily Telegraph Just as funny and acutely perceptive [as] Submarine Independent Occupying a terrain that lies between the very British humour of Jonathan Coe and the zeitgeisty ambition of Douglas Coupland ... insightful comic writing ... that manages to be both tender and biting Independent on Sunday --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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Kate and Albert, sister and brother, are not yet the last two human beings on earth, but Albert is hopeful. The secluded communal farm they grew up on is - after twenty years - disintegrating, taking their parents' marriage with it. They both try to escape: Kate, at seventeen, to a suburbia she knows only through fiction and Albert, at eleven, into preparations for the end of the world - which is coming, he is sure.

And then there is Don: father of the family, leader and maker of elaborate speeches. Faced with the prospect of saving his community, his marriage, his son from apocalyptic visions and his daughter from impending men, he sets to work on reunifying the commune by bringing it into the modern age, through self-sufficiency, charisma and a rave with a 10k soundsystem.

The last day on earth is coming. Bring your own booze.

About the Author

Joe Dunthorne was born and brought up in Swansea. His debut novel, Submarine, won the Curtis Brown prize, has been translated into ten languages and in spring 2011 was made into an acclaimed film by Richard Ayoade. His stories, poems and journalism have been published in the Guardian, the Independent, the Financial Times, the Sunday Times, Vice and Poetry Review. He lives in London.
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