Bloomsbury USA
Available: 10/15/07
5.50 x 8.25 · 512 pages
978-1-59691-384-4 CDN $17.95 · pb

The Book of Dave

A Novel

Will Self

When London cabbie Dave Rudman loses wife and child to another man, he begins to write a book for his son—part memoir, part deranged philosophical treatise and part handbook of “The Knowledge” learned by all London cabbies. His book perfectly encapsulates the frustration and anxiety of modern life—and when it is discovered 500 years later, Dave is revered as a prophet.

“The novel is brilliantly imagined and thorough in its conceit, and is both scorchingly funny and desperately grim.” (Toronto Star)

WILL SELF (London) is the acclaimed author of The Quantity Theory of Insanity, Great Apes and How the Dead Live.