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Summary: Dave Rudman, a disgruntled East End taxi driver, writes down his woes, frustrations, and pet peeves and buries them, only to have them discovered five hundred years later and used as the sacred text for a religion that has taken hold in the flooded remnants of London
Five centuries after Dave Rudman wrote a gripping text--part memoir, part deranged philosophical treatise, and part handbook meant for his son when he came of age--it is discovered by the inhabitants.
Dave Rudman, a disgruntled East End taxi driver, writes down his woes, frustrations, and pet peeves and buries them, only to have them discovered five hundred years later and used as the sacred text for a religion that has taken hold in the flooded remnants of London. Reprint. Print length. 495 pages. Language. English. Publisher.
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It takes an idea that a London taxi driver in the present day writes a book which is discovered at some distant point in the future and is adopted as a bible. Will Self has tremendous fun with it as a critique of modern day religious attitudes.
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Will Self's big bold book dares to take on the grand themes in the grand manner. It is at once a profound meditation upon the nature of received religion; a love story; a caustic satire of contemporary urban life and a historical detective story set in the far future.
The Book of Dave: A Revelation of the Recent Past and the Distant Future : Self, Will: Amazon.com.au: Books
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- Will Self
