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Vernon God Little Paperback – Bargain Price, June 15, 2004

3.9 out of 5 stars 387 ratings

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"Read [this book] not only for its dangerous relevance, but for the coruscating wit and raw vitality of its voice." (Jonathan Lethem )

"Pierre renders adolescence brilliantly, capturing with seeming effortlessness the bright, contradictory hormone rush of teenage life." (
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"An unexpectedly moving first novel ... Raucous and brooding, coarse and lyric, corrosive and sentimental in about equal measure." (Joyce Carol Oates
The New Yorker )

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"If Huckleberry Finn were set on the Mexican-American border and written by the creators of South Park, it might read something like this."-San Francisco Chronicle

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.

Winner of the Whitbread Award for Best First Novel
A New York Times Notable Book
A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year

DBC Pierre is the pen name of Peter Finlay, who was born in Australia in 1961 and divided most of the first twenty-three years of his life between Texas and Mexico City. He lives in Ireland.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B003L1ZYPG
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Mariner Books; Reprint edition (June 15, 2004)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 300 pages
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.08 x 5.72 x 0.82 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    3.9 out of 5 stars 387 ratings

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