Vernon God Little DBC Pierre

Name: Vernon God Little By DBC Pierre
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Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre

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Summary

Fifteen-year-old Vernon Gregory Little is in trouble, and it has something to do with the recent massacre of 16 students at his high school. Soon, the quirky backwater of Martirio, barbecue capital of Texas, is flooded with wannabe CNN hacks, eager for a scapegoat.

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Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre

Fifteen-year-old Vernon Gregory Little is in trouble. And it has something to do with the recent massacre of 16 students at his high school. Soon the quirky backwater of Martirio, barbecue capital of Texas, is flooded with wannabe CNN hacks keen to lay the blame at Vernon's feet. Eulalio Ledesma, in particular, sniffs out his opportunity to make good at Vernon's expense. As the net tightens and desire for a scapegoat reaches fever-pitch, Vernon decides to leave town for Mexico and a date - or so he hopes - with the divine Taylor Figueroa. Peopled by a cast of freaks, obese law-enforcement officers and cold-blooded chattering housewives, Vernon God Little is a riotous adventure story that cuts a swathe through the heart of contemporary America.

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The terrorist atrocity that flattens skyscrapers or turns a busy nightclub into a crater is typically described by eyewitnesses as like a film and by novelists as an event too improbable for fiction. It is some years since Philip Roth wrote in a famous essay about a reality that is a kind of embarrassment to one's own meagre imagination. It is this reality, the one you couldn't make up if you tried, which only makes sense as an insane film, that is the subject of this utterly original first novel about an American teenager falsely accused of a high school massacre, put on trial by television, and sentenced to death by lethal injection. Funnier than The Simpsons, closer to the knuckle than The Office, this is comic writing of the highest order. Pierre is a very clever and - quite possibly - extremely dangerous man.

About DBC Pierre

DBC Pierre was born in Reynella, South Australia. He was raised in Mexico between the ages of seven and twenty-three, although he has also travelled extensively. DBC Pierre has worked as a designer and cartoonist, and currently lives in Ireland. Vernon God Little, his first novel, won the 2003 Bollinger Everyman Woodhouse Award, the Whitbread Prize for Best First Novel, and the 2003 Man Booker Prize.

Additional information

Sku

GOR001934446

ISBN 13

9780571215157

ISBN 10

0571215157

Title

Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre

Author

DBC Pierre

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Hardback

Publisher

Faber & Faber

Year published

20030120

Number of pages

288

Prizes

Winner of Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2003 Winner of Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize 2003 Winner of Booker Prize for Fiction 2003 Short-listed for Guardian First Book Award 2003 Short-listed for Whitbread Prize (First Novel) 2003

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