New Today: Wild Abandon by Joe Dunthorne
Tuesday, January 3, 2012 Posted by Unknown at 8:15 AM
Joe Dunthorne’s 2008 debut, Submarine, was darkly funny, gently experimental and widely lauded. His sophomore effort, Wild Abandon (Random House) is not that book, though Dunthorne has brought some of his themes along for the ride. (One suspects we’ll be seeing them again and again.)Seventeen-year-old Kate and 11-year-old Albert have been raised on a commune in rural Wales. The impending break-up
