Vernon God Little: A 21st Century Comedy in the Presence of Death
by Pierre, D. B. C
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0571215157
- ISBN 13
- 9780571215157
- Seller
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Tokyo, Japan
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About This Item
London: Faber and Faber, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. A highly collectible tight clean copy, protected in a new brodart wrapper, no inscriptions, unclipped dustjacket, this is not an Ex-Lib or a BCE/BOMC edition. 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.
Synopsis
Vernon God Little is the Booker Prize winning debut novel of Australian-born author DBC Pierre, the pseudonym used by Peter Warren Finlay.
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- Seller
- Infinity Books Japan (JP)
- Seller's Inventory #
- RWARE0000008219
- Title
- Vernon God Little: A 21st Century Comedy in the Presence of Death
- Author
- Pierre, D. B. C
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine/Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0571215157
- ISBN 13
- 9780571215157
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2003
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