submarine – and so she thinks https://andsoshethinks.co.uk CREATE:COMMUNICATE:CONNECT Mon, 19 Mar 2018 16:36:26 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://andsoshethinks.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/cropped-FAVICON-90x90-1-32x32.png submarine – and so she thinks https://andsoshethinks.co.uk 32 32 The Adulterants – Joe Dunthorne https://andsoshethinks.co.uk/the-adulterants-joe-dunthorne/ https://andsoshethinks.co.uk/the-adulterants-joe-dunthorne/#respond Mon, 19 Mar 2018 16:36:26 +0000 https://andsoshethinks.wordpress.com/?p=9439 Ten years after his brilliant first novel Submarine, Joe Dunthorne brings us The Adulterants, a dark and funny comedy about modern relationships. Rising house prices and rising tensions amid the London riots in 2011 are our backdrop, but the tussles and rangling between Ray, aged 34, and his wife Garthene, echo many Generation Y and Millennial relationships. Their metropolitan lives are instantly recognisable to anyone who has lived in the city, and through first person narration is intimately conveyed, with lots of hints of irony. It’s a tale of knowing and observation, capturing the anxieties of adulthood, becoming an adult, and not quite being an adult. Despite touching on everyman thmes, the characters are richly enough drawn to be people in their own right, and sympathetic enough to be people who the reader cares about. With brilliant banter and witty interior reportage, Dunthorne brings to life a cast of people working their hardest to navigate life, and making mistakes along the way.

Published on Penguin, 2018.

]]> https://andsoshethinks.co.uk/the-adulterants-joe-dunthorne/feed/ 0 Lawless – words and music courtesy of Nick Cave https://andsoshethinks.co.uk/lawless-words-and-music-courtesy-of-nick-cave/ https://andsoshethinks.co.uk/lawless-words-and-music-courtesy-of-nick-cave/#respond Sun, 19 Aug 2012 18:42:17 +0000 http://itsallhappeningmusic.blog.com/?p=1337 I saw Quadrophenia for the first time this week, and it only confirmed my long held belief: it is often the soundtrack that makes a movie. (Also, that I would definitely have been a mod, but that’s beside the point).
Coming up soon, is Lawless, an the explosive gangster story about the Bondurant brothers, young rural bootleggers in 1920s prohibition America. Based on the novel by Matt Bondurant, it has been adapted for the screen by Nick Cave, who also composed the original score.
Starring Tom Hardy, Gary Oldman and Mia Wasikowska , it will be released in the UK and Ireland on 7 September by Momentum Pictures, but we will have a sneak preview of the soundtrack soon to tell you all about!
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