Joe Dunthorne





Joe Dunthorne

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Joe Dunthorne was born and brought up in Swansea, and is a graduate of the University of East Anglia's Creative Writing MA, where he was awarded the Curtis Brown prize.

His poetry has been published in magazines and anthologies and has featured on Channel 4, and BBC Radio 3 and 4. A pamphlet collection, Joe Dunthorne: Faber New Poets 5 was published in 2010.

His first novel, Submarine, the story of a dysfunctional family in Swansea narrated by Oliver Tate, aged 15, was published in 2008.


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Average rating: 3.63 · 2,912 ratings · 321 reviews · 4 distinct works · Similar authors
Submarine
3.69 of 5 stars 3.69 avg rating — 2,506 ratings — published 2008 — 28 editions
Wild Abandon
3.2 of 5 stars 3.20 avg rating — 376 ratings — published 2011 — 11 editions
Faber New Poets 5
4.6 of 5 stars 4.60 avg rating — 10 ratings
One for the Trouble
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4.25 of 5 stars 4.25 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions

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“I love you more than words. And I am a big fan of words.”
Joe Dunthorne, Submarine

“Exercise II.

Write a diary, imagining that you are trying to make an old person jealous. I have written an example to get you started:

Dear Diary,
I spent the morning admiring my skin elasticity.
God alive, I feel supple.”
Joe Dunthorne, Submarine

“I don't know if I've come of age, but I'm certainly older now. I feel shrunken, as if there's a tiny ancient Oliver Tate inside me operating the levers of a life-size Oliver-shaped shell. A shell on which a decrepit picture show replays the same handful of images. Every night I come to the same place and wait till the sky catches up with my mood. The pattern is set. This is, no doubt, the end.”
Joe Dunthorne, Submarine

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