Pierre, D.B.C. - Vernon God Little: A 21st Century Comedy in th
| Schrijver: | Pierre, D.B.C. |
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| Titel: | Vernon God Little: A 21st Century Comedy in the Presence of Death |
| ISBN: | 9781841954608 |
| Taal: | Engels |
| Uitgever: | Canongate Books |
| Bijzonderheden: | 2003, hardcover with dust jacket, good copy |
| Prijs: | € 8,65 |
| Verzendkosten: | € 4,20 (binnen Nederland) |
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The surprise winner of the 2003 Man Booker Prize, DBC Pierre's debut novel, Vernon God Little, makes few apologies in its darkly comedic portrait of Martirio, Texas, a town reeling in the aftermath of a horrific school shooting. Fifteen-year-old Vernon Little narrates the first-person story with a cynical twang and a four-letter barb for each of his diet-obsessed townsfolk. His mother, endlessly awaiting the delivery of a new refrigerator, seems to exist only to twist an emotional knife in his back; her friend, Palmyra, structures her life around the next meal at the Bar-B-Chew Barn; officer Vaine Gurie has Vernon convicted of the crime before she's begun the investigation; reporter Eulalio Ledesma hovers between a comforting father-figure and a sadistic Bond villain; and Jesus, his best friend in the world, is dead--a victim of the killings. As his life explodes before him, Vernon flees his home in pursuit of a tropical fantasy: a cabin on a beach in Mexico he once saw in the movie Against All Odds. But the police--and TV crews--are in hot pursuit.
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