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Vernon God Little DBC Pierre, 2003 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 300 pp. ISBN-13: 9780156029988 Summary Winner, 2003 Booker Prize; Whitbread Award When sixteen kids are shot on high school grounds, everyone looks for someone to blame. Meet Vernon Little, under arrest at the sheriff's office, a teenager wearing nothing but yesterday's underwear and.
Vernon God Little is the debut novel by author DBC (Dirty But Clean) Pierre.It was the winner of the Man Booker Prize 2003, Whitbread Best First Novel Award 2003 and Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Award for Comic Writing 2003.
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.
So Vernon does what any red-blooded American teenager would do; he takes off for Mexico. Vernon God Little is a provocatively satirical, riotously funny look at violence, materialism, and the American media. Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre. Publication Date: June 15, 2004; Paperback: 300 pages; Publisher: Mariner Books; ISBN-10: 0156029987; ISBN-13: 9780156029988; About the Book; Discussion.
Download the Vernon God Little programme (pdf) Overview. Texas teenager Vernon Little finds himself in an avalanche of absurdity and corruption as he is blamed by the media and his own small town community for a crime he didn’t commit. As he scrambles to wriggle free of this injustice, his desperation leads him across the border to Mexico and.
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.
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