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Vernon God Little
Vernon God Little
hardback
Published:
20 January, 2003
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Description
Prizes
Winner of Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2003 and Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize 2003 and Booker Prize for Fiction 2003. Shortlisted for Guardian First Book Award 2003 and Whitbread Prize (First Novel) 2003.
More Details
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9780571215157 |
| ISBN10 | 0571215157 |
| Number Of Pages | 288 |
| Item Weight | 399 g |
| Product Dimensions | 150 x 32 x 204 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Faber & Faber |
| Format | hardback |
| Edition | First Edition |
Media Reviews
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.
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Author's Bio
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.