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Vernon God Little

Vernon God Little

by DBC Pierre

Publisher Faber & Faber

Genre: Crime and Rare & Collectible

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  • Book Condition & Notes

    Very good first edition, in a fine dust-jacket. Some yellowing to the pages. This book is located in our Brighton store, and may take longer for delivery.

About the book

Fifteen-year-old Vernon Gregory Little is in trouble. And it has something to do with the recent massacre of 16 students at his high school.

Soon the quirky backwater of Martirio, barbecue capital of Texas, is flooded with wannabe CNN hacks keen to lay the blame at Vernon's feet.

Eulalio Ledesma, in particular, sniffs out his opportunity to make good at Vernon's expense. As the net tightens and desire for a scapegoat reaches fever-pitch, Vernon decides to leave town for Mexico and a date - or so he hopes - with the divine Taylor Figueroa.

Peopled by a cast of freaks, obese law-enforcement officers and cold-blooded chattering housewives, Vernon God Little is a riotous adventure story that cuts a swathe through the heart of contemporary America.

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About the Author

DBC Pierre

DBC Pierre is the author of Ludmila's Broken English, Lights Out in Wonderland and Vernon God Little, which won the Man Booker Prize, the Whitbread Prize for Best First Novel, the Bollinger Wodehouse Everyman Award and the James Joyce Award.

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