Vernon God Little

Fifteen-year-old Vernon Gregory Little is in trouble, and it has something to do with the recent massacre of 16 students at his high school. Soon, the quirky backwater of Martirio, barbecue capital of Texas, is flooded with wannabe CNN hacks, eager for a scapegoat.

Literature & Fiction

Pierre, D.B.C

Contemporary

Penguin Audiobooks

When sixteen kids are shot on high school grounds, everyone looks for someone to blame. Meet Vernon Little, under arrest at the sheriff's office, a teenager wearing nothing but yesterday's underwear and his prized logo sneakers. Moments after the shooter, his best buddy, turns the gun on himself, Vernon is pinned as an accomplice. Out for revenge are the townspeople, the cable news networks, and Deputy Vaine Gurie, a woman whose zeal for the Pritikin diet is eclipsed only by her appetite for barbecued ribs from the Bar-B-Chew Barn. So Vernon does what any red-blooded American teenager would do; he takes off for Mexico. Vernon God Little is a provocatively satirical, riotously funny look at violence, materialism, and the American media.

World Literature

Mariner Books

Faber and Faber

Lights Out in Wonderland

Literary

FABER

"Lights Out in Wonderland has all the verbal wit and energy of Vernon God Little."―Financial Times Gabriel Brockwell―aesthete, philosopher, disaffected twenty-something decadent―is thinking terminal. He's decided to kill himself―but not immediately. His destination is Wonderland. The style of the journey is all that's to be decided. Traveling between London, Tokyo, and Berlin, Gabriel is in search of the bacchanal to obliterate all previous parties. His adventure takes in a spell in rehab, a near-death experience eating a poisonous Japanese delicacy, and finally an orgiastic feast in the bowels of Berlin's majestic Tempelhof Airport. Along the way, Gabriel falls apart, only to reemerge with a new outlook on the world and a mission to right his past wrongs.Lights Out in Wonderland is an allegorical banquet, a sly commentary on these End Times and the march toward banality, and a joyful expression of the human spirit.

London: Faber and Faber

Ludmila's Broken English

Ludmila's Broken English charts the unlikely meeting between East and West that follows Ludmila Derev's appearance on a Russian bride's website. Determined to save her family from starvation, Ludmila's journey into the world and womanhood is an odyssey of sour wit and even sourer vodka. Thousands of miles to the west, the Heath twins, Blair and Bunny, are separated after 33 years conjoined at the abdomen. Released for the first time from an institution, they are suddenly plunged into a round-the-clock world churning with opportunity.

Isis Large Print Books

In the small town of Martirio, Texas, fifteen-year-old Vernon Little finds himself in deep trouble after his best friend Jesus kills sixteen of his classmates before committing suicide as he becomes the target of both vengeful townspeople in search of vengeance and justice and the media's thirst for sensation. A first novel. 35,000 first printing.

Vernon God Little: A 21st Century Comedy in the Presence of Death (Man Booker Prize)

United States

Canongate Books Ltd.

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Vernon God Little

Vernon God Little

Vernon God Little

Lights Out in Wonderland

Lights Out in Wonderland

Ludmila's Broken English

Ludmila's Broken English

Vernon God Little: A 21st Century Comedy in the Presence of Death (Man Booker Prize)