VERNON GOD LITTLE by DBC Pierre ( 9780571215164 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

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Title:

VERNON GOD LITTLE

By:

DBC Pierre

Format:

Paperback

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£9.99

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ISBN 10:

0571215165

ISBN 13:

9780571215164

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Publisher:

FABER & FABER

Pub. date:

6 May, 2004

Edition:

Main

Pages:

288

Description:

Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2003, this book suggests that desperate times throw up the most unlikely of heroes.

Synopsis:

WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2003WINNER OF THE 2003 WHITBREAD FIRST NOVEL PRIZENamed as one of the 100 Best Things in the World by GQ magazine in 2003, the riotous adventures of Vernon Gregory Little in small town Texas and beachfront Mexico mark one of the most spectacular, irreverent and bizarre debuts of the twenty-first century so far. Its depiction of innocence and simple humanity (all seasoned with a dash of dysfunctional profanity) in an evil world is never less than astonishing. The only novel to be set in the barbecue sauce capital of Central Texas, Vernon God Little suggests that desperate times throw up the most unlikely of heroes.'A showpiece of superb comic writing . . . Out of the detritus of a morally bankrupt society, Pierre has fashioned a work of comic art.' Sunday Telegraph'In a just world, this ridiculously funny first novel would come free with every television set . . . Not since reading John Kennedy O'Toole's masterpiece, A Confederacy of Dunces . . . have I laughed so much or felt such sheer delight at the discovery of a wholly fresh comic voice . . . this novel reads like a modern day fairytale.' Mail on Sunday

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Imprint:

Faber & Faber

Prizes:

Winner of Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2003 Winner of Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize 2003 Winner of Booker Prize for Fiction 2003 Short-listed for Guardian First Book Award 2003 Short-listed for Whitbread Prize (First Novel) 2003

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