Showing posts with label Dunthorne. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dunthorne. Show all posts

Friday, 18 March 2011

Going down?

Anybody going to see Submarine, the new coming-of-age film? I'm feeling rather smug: I bought the hardcover book by Joe Dunthorne quite a while ago, before an adaptation was in the air, and loved it. Stupidly though, I toyed with putting it on the curriculum but decided that it wouldn't stay in print long enough.

I don't know if it'll be a good film, but the book's excellent - funny, heartfelt, dark, and blessed with fantastic unreliable narration which was what really caught my eye.