Joe Speedboat
With his wheelchair-bound spastic narrator, Fransje Hermans, who can only speak in unintelligible grunts, Tommy Wieringa has succeeded in writing a dazzling novel whose every page sparkles with imagination, it is a splendid literary achievement. The story is driven by Joe Speedboat, friend and classmate of the narrator and, of course, his enterprising counterpart.
Original title
Joe speedboot
Author
Tommy Wieringa
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A book to fall in love with, right from the first page. It reminds one of the work of John Irving and Paul Auster. (…) With 'Joe Speedboat', Wieringa’s authorship has reached full maturity.
Het Parool
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Wieringa has been admirably successful in making the world of these not-so-nice boys tangible. (…) He has an enormous sense of rhythm. His sentences never lose their intensity. It keeps on going, keeps on swinging. A cracker.
Trouw
'Joe Speedboot' is the kind of book that you would prefer to finish in bed with a flashlight.
Passionate
Tommy Wieringa
Tommy Wieringa (b. 1967) is the author of Alles over Tristan (Everything About Tristan, 2002) and Joe Speedboat (2005), his staggeringly successful breakthrough novel which went on to sell 300,000 copies. Wieringa’s work has been translated into languages as disparate as French, Hebrew and Korean.