Vernon God Little
by:
D.B.C. Pierre (author)
Hailed by the critics and lauded by readers for its riotously funny and scathing portrayal of America in an age of trial by media, materialism, and violence, Vernon God Little was an international sensation when it was first published in 2003 and awarded the prestigious Man Booker Prize.The...
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Hailed by the critics and lauded by readers for its riotously funny and scathing portrayal of America in an age of trial by media, materialism, and violence, Vernon God Little was an international sensation when it was first published in 2003 and awarded the prestigious Man Booker Prize.The memorable portrait of America is seen through the eyes of a wry, young, protagonist. Fifteen-year-old Vernon narrates the story with a cynical twang and a four-letter barb for each of his townsfolk, a medley of characters. With a plot involving a school shooting and death-row reality TV shows, Pierre’s effortless prose and dialogue combine to form a novel of postmodern gamesmanship.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780802170958 (0802170951)
Publish date: August 14th 2012
Publisher: Grove Press
Pages no: 288
Edition language: English
Category:
Young Adult,
Novels,
Humor,
Comedy,
Literature,
Book Club,
American,
Literary Fiction,
Coming Of Age,
Contemporary,
Modern
I honestly don’t know what the judges were thinking awarding the Booker Prize in 2003 to Vernon God Little. Not that it is not occasionally mildly entertaining but it has a gimmicky one-trick pony stamped all over it. And that trick is not all that to be fair.The subject matter is serious – high sch...
I wanted to like this book but abandoned it half way. That's over 100 pages in. It just couldn't hold my attention, which is odd because I've been captivated by books with a less remarkable premise than this. I couldn't relate to the teenage protagonist and his quips, one line smart responses. Yeah ...
Un petit livre amusant, satirique et caricatural mais assez faible au niveau de la cohérence ou du réalisme (des scènes ou des personnages...)Je comprends juste pas le prix Booker (2003). Ça doit être de l'humour british pour se moquer des Américains!
Vulgar and irreverent and hilarious. Aside from how funny it was, I thought the plotting was very well done. Plenty of fat people jokes. The last 50 pages or so really had me anxious to see what would happen. And just when it seemed clear what would happen, boom, it changed. Good characters, funny s...
I'm going to file this one alongside 'The Kite Runner' and 'The Line of Beauty'. It's just unusual enough to satisfy the literary establishment that it's OK to like it, but also pulpy enough in its plot and prose to make it accessible to the rest of us.So VGL, like those two mentioned above and, no ...
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