Winner · The Booker Prize 2003
Vernon God Little
by DBC Pierre
2003 novel by DBC Pierre
Teenager Vernon Gregory Little's life has been changed by the Columbine-style slaughter of a group of students at his high school. Soon his home town is blanketed under a media siege, and Vernon finds himself blamed for the killing. Vernon finds himself drawn into a series of increasingly bizarre circumstances and decides to take off for Mexico and a date, with the delectable Taylor Figueros.
Synopsis from Open Library.
- Language
- English
- Genre
- comic novel
- Pages
- 283
- ISBN
- 9780753171691
- Subjects
- Man Booker Prize Winner, School violence, Teenage boys, High school students, Fiction, Massacres, award:man_booker_prize=2003, Fiction, humorous
The Booker Prize 2003
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Schopenhauer's Telescope
Something Might Happen
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
The Good Doctor
The Light of Day
The Nick of Time
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The Taxi Driver's Daughter
Turn Again Home
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