Vernon Subutex 2: A Novel by Virginie Despentes (English) Paperback Book

Description: Vernon Subutex 2 by Virginie Despentes, Frank Wynne "Originally published in French in 2015 by âEditions Grasset & Fasquelle, France. English translation originally published in 2018 by MacLehose Press, Great Britain"--Title page verso. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Part social epic, part punk-rock thriller, writer/filmmaker Virginie Despentess Vernon Subutex trilogy continues the Man Booker International Prize shortlisted sprawling tale of an ex-record shop clerks 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. Its 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 Vernons orbit is in violent disarray. Aïcha 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 Céleste thinks of her plan. Céleste wants Aïcha to get a grip and stop hanging around with Subutexs gang of disciples. The Hyena wants to find the Bleach tapes. She wants to untangle her complicated feelings about Anaïs, her bosss 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 Despentess Vernon Subutex trilogy is the zeitgeistiest thing I ever read." --Nell Zink, Bustle, "The Best Books of the 2010s" Author Biography 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. Review "Its bastards across the board in Virginie Despentess brilliantly unshackled trilogy "Vernon Subutex", whose second volume is now available in Frank Wynnes eruptive translation from the French . . . What keeps you reading is the voice--acerbic, unconstrained, bitterly funny and, despite the books intimations of enlightenment, perpetually pissed off. Ms. Despentes has a deep and abiding rage against conformity--against "the standardization of desire"--that only a renunciation as thoroughgoing as Vernons seems capable of overcoming."--Sam Sacks, The Wall Street Journal "Virginie Despentes is a true original, a punk rock George Eliot with a keen taste for the pitiable innards of her characters: no one else has her slyly penetrating eye, her spiky sense of humor, her razor wit that cuts like wire through the accumulated crud of our ages default thought patterns. In her masterful hands, Vernon Subutex becomes a droll, hilarious, insightful record of our unfortunate times."--Alexandra Kleeman, author of You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine"Cool, plentiful, and absolute genius. Virginie Despentes has a license to ill. Vernon Subutex is one of the best books of this decade."--Alex Gilvarry, author of Eastman Was Here"The apparent deaths by drug overdose of indie rock star Alex Bleach and his porn star ex-girlfriend unite a motley crew of armchair investigators in this rollicking second volume of a trilogy set in 2014 Paris . . . Such is the snowballing effect of this sexed-up epic, an achievement greater than the sum of its wildly colorful parts."--Publishers Weekly (starred) "The second book in her trilogy Vernon Subutex, Despentes novel brings a jaundiced eye to pornography, drug addiction, and punk rock in the noirish titular story of record shop owner and eventual homeless messiah guru who has tapes concerning the dead rock star Alex Bleach. Like William S. Burroughs updated for the age of WhatsApp, Vernon Subutex 2 straps our current world to a chair and interrogates the hell out of it."--The Millions Review Quote "Virginie Despentes is a true original, a punk rock George Eliot with a keen taste for the pitiable innards of her characters: no one else has her slyly penetrating eye, her spiky sense of humor, her razor wit that cuts like wire through the accumulated crud of our ages default thought patterns. In her masterful hands, Vernon Subutex becomes a droll, hilarious, insightful record of our unfortunate times." --Alexandra Kleeman, author of You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine "Cool, plentiful, and absolute genius. Virginie Despentes has a license to ill . Vernon Subutex is one of the best books of this decade." --Alex Gilvarry, author of Eastman Was Here " The apparent deaths by drug overdose of indie rock star Alex Bleach and his porn star ex-girlfriend unite a motley crew of armchair investigators in this rollicking second volume of a trilogy set in 2014 Paris . . . Such is the snowballing effect of this sexed-up epic, an achievement greater than the sum of its wildly colorful parts." -- Publishers Weekly (starred) "The second book in her trilogy Vernon Subutex , Despentes novel brings a jaundiced eye to pornography, drug addiction, and punk rock in the noirish titular story of record shop owner and eventual homeless messiah guru who has tapes concerning the dead rock star Alex Bleach. Like William S. Burroughs updated for the age of WhatsApp, Vernon Subutex 2 straps our current world to a chair and interrogates the hell out of it." -- The Millions Details ISBN0374283257 Author Frank Wynne Short Title Vernon Subutex 2 Pages 368 Language English Year 2020 ISBN-10 0374283257 ISBN-13 9780374283254 Format Paperback Publication Date 2020-07-07 Subtitle A Novel Series Number 2 Publisher Fsg Originals Imprint Fsg Originals Series Vernon Subutex Translator Frank Wynne DEWEY 843.914 Audience General UK Release Date 2020-07-07 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:137363894;

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