Vernon God Little: A 21st Century Comedy in the Presence of Death - Pierre, D.B.C.
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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 ...
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2003Uitgever: Canongate Books279 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 1841954608ISBN-13: 9781841954608Koop dit boek tweedehands
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2003, hardcover with dust jacket, good copy [Auteur: Pierre, D.B.C.] [Taal: en] [Uitgever: Canongate Books] [Jaar: 2003] [Titel: Vernon God Little: A 21st Century Comedy in the Presence of Death]
