Baise-Moi (Rape Me) by Virginie Despentes

Baise-Moi (Rape Me) by Virginie Despentes

Baise-Moi is one of the most controversial French novels of recent years, a punk fantasy that takes female rage to its outer limits. Now the basis for a hit underground film which was banned in France, Baise-Moi is a searing story of two women on a rampage that is part Thelma and Louise, part Viking conquest. Manu and Nadine have had all they can take. Manu has been brutally raped, and determines it's not worth leaving anything precious lying vulnerable -- including her very self. She teams up with Nadine, a nihilist who watches pornography incessantly, and they enact their own version of les vols et les viols (rape and pillage) -- they lure men sexually, use them up, then rob and kill them. Drawing from the spiky cadences of the Sex Pistols and the murderous eroticism of Georges Bataille or Dennis Cooper, Baise-Moi is a shocking, accomplished, and truly unforgettable novel.

Virginie Despentes is a filmmaker and writer. She worked in an independent record store in the early 1990s, was a sex worker, and at the age of twenty-three, she published her first novel, Baise Moi. In 2000, she co-directed the film adaptation of the novel with porn star Coralie Trinh Thi. It was the first picture to be banned in France in twenty-eight years when it was released. Despentes is also the author of Apocalypse Baby, Bye Bye Blondie, Beautiful Things, and the Vernon Subutex trilogy, among other works.

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ISBN 13	9780802138705
ISBN 10	0802138705
Title	Baise-Moi (Rape Me)
Author	Virginie Despentes
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
Year published	2003-03-18
Number of pages	208
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