- Family secrets, Teenage boys, Imagination, Fiction
The dryly precocious, soon-to-be-fifteen-year-old hero of this engagingly offbeat debut novel, Oliver Tate lives in the seaside town of Swansea, Wales.
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Contemporary, intimate, spare and character-led.
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- intimateepic
- sparerichly built
- character-ledplot-driven
- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- Author
- Joe Dunthorne
- First published
- 2008
- Pages
- 312
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group, Penguin Books Ltd, Penguin Random House
- Editions
- 11
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781299090675
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