Vernon God Little
A 21st Century Comedy in the Presence of Death. Winner of the Booker Prize 2003, Whitbread First Novel Award 2003 and the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize 2003
von D. B. C. Pierre
288 Seiten; 198 mm x 129 mm
Sprache English
Main - Re-issue
2020 Faber & Faber, London
ISBN 978-0-571-21516-4
Besprechung
WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2003
WINNER OF THE 2003 WHITBREAD FIRST NOVEL PRIZE
Meet fifteen-year-old Vernon Gregory Little. Desperate times call for the most unlikely of heroes.
'Startling . . . explosive and extravagantly satisfying.' Guardian
'Dangerous, smart, ridiculous and very funny.' New York Times
Kurztext / Annotation
16 Schüler einer Highschool werden umgebracht. Einige klatschsüchtige Hausfrauen werden plötzlich zu Witwen. Und mittendrin der 15-jährige Vernon, dem es gelingt, immer zur richtigen Zeit am falschen Ort zu sein. "Vernon God Little" ist eine schwarze Kommödie über Gewalt in den USA.
Biografische Anmerkung zu den Verfassern
When not travelling far and wide DBC Pierre divides his time between England and a mountainside in Ireland. Vernon God Little, his debut novel, won the Man Booker Prize and the Whitbread First Novel Award, and was followed by Ludmila's Broken English and Lights Out in Wonderland. He is also the author of a collection of short fictions, Petit Mal, and a Hammer novella, Breakfast with the Borgias.