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Vernon God Little
- Author: DBC Pierre
- Category: Fiction Literary
- Publisher: Faber(UK)/Canongate(US)
- Pub date: 20 January 2003
- Length: 279 pages
About Vernon God Little
Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2003
Winner of the Bollinger Everyman Woodhouse Award for Comic Fiction 2003
Winner of the Whitbread First Novel Award 2003
Not since reading John Kennedy O’Toole’s masterpiece A CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES twenty years ago have I laughed so much or felt such sheer delight at the discovery of a wholly fresh comic voice
— Craig Brown, MAIL ON SUNDAY
Assured, impassioned and chilling… a dark masterpiece
—SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
[Vernon is] not just a rebel for the Eminem generation, but a boy of such sweetness he makes death row a respectable address
— INDEPENDENT
Set in the barbecue-sauce capital of Texas in the aftermath of a high-school massacre, VERNON GOD LITTLE is peopled by a cast of grotesques, freaks, cold-blooded chattering housewives (all mysteriously widowed) and one very special adolescent with an unfortunate talent for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. It is a riotous adventure story which cuts a satirical swathe through the heart of contemporary America.
About the Author
DBC Pierre has worked as a designer and cartoonist, and currently lives in Ireland. His first novel, VERNON GOD LITTLE, won the 2003 Bollinger Everyman Woodhouse Award, the 2003 Whitbread Prize for Best First Novel, and the 2003 Man Booker Prize, and is sold in 43 countries.