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by Virginie Despentes
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Availability:In StockContributor:Virginie Despentes, Frank Wynne (Translator)Series:Vernon Subutex #2Publish date:2020-07-07Pages:368
Language:EnglishPublisher:Fsg OriginalsISBN-13:9780374283254ISBN-10:374283257UPC:9780374283254Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Satire, World LiteratureBook Topic:FranceSize:7.50 x 5.00 x 1.10 inchesWeight:0.5512Product ID:SCDF1S590E

Part social epic, part punk-rock thriller, writer/filmmaker Virginie Despentes's Vernon Subutex trilogy continues the Man Booker International Prize shortlisted sprawling tale of an ex-record shop clerk's celebrity fortunes and misfortunes.

The basis for the TV show of the same name available on streaming.

Rock star Alex Bleach might be dead, but he has a secret. It's a secret that concerns several people, but the only person who can unlock it is Vernon Subutex, former record shop proprietor turned homeless messiah and guru, last seen hallucinating and feverish on a bench. He has tapes of Alex that will shake the world. The hunt is on, and the wolves are closing in.

Meanwhile, the cast of lovers and killers in Vernon's orbit is in violent disarray. A?cha wants to know the truth behind the death of her mother, the porn star Vodka Satana. And if she finds the bastards responsible, she wants to make them pay, whatever C?leste thinks of her plan. C?leste wants A?cha to get a grip and stop hanging around with Subutex's gang of disciples. The Hyena wants to find the Bleach tapes. She wants to untangle her complicated feelings about Ana?s, her boss's assistant. And speaking of her boss, she does not want Laurent Dopalet to discover how badly she has double-crossed him.

Big-shot producer Laurent Dopalet wants the Hyena to find and destroy the Bleach tapes. He wants to forget he ever knew Vodka Satana. He wants people to stop graffitiing his apartment with ludicrous allegations. Above all, he wants people to understand: NONE OF THIS IS HIS FAULT.

"Virginie Despentes's Vernon Subutex trilogy is the zeitgeistiest thing I ever read." --Nell Zink, Bustle, "The Best Books of the 2010s"
Language:EnglishPublisher:Fsg OriginalsISBN-13:9780374283254ISBN-10:374283257UPC:9780374283254Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Satire, World LiteratureBook Topic:FranceSize:7.50 x 5.00 x 1.10 inchesWeight:0.5512Product ID:SCDF1S590E

Virginie Despentes is a writer and filmmaker. She worked in an independent record store in the early '90s, was a sex worker, and published her first novel, Baise Moi, when she was twenty-three. She adapted the novel for the screen in 2000, codirecting with the porn star Coralie Trinh Thi. Upon release, it became the first film to be banned in France in twenty-eight years. Despentes is the author of more than fifteen other works, including the Vernon Subutex Trilogy, Apocalypse Baby, Bye Bye Blondie, Pretty Things, and the essay collection King Kong Theory.

Frank Wynne has translated the work of many authors including Michel Houellebecq, Boualem Sansal, Frédéric Beigbeder, and the late Ivoirian novelist Ahmadou Kourouma. He won the International IMPAC Literary Award with Houellebecq for The Elementary Particles.
Publisher: Fsg Originals

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Virginie Despentes, Frank Wynne (Translator)

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Virginie Despentes

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