Vernon Subutex - Vol.1 - the International Booker-shortlisted cult novel
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| Verlag | Quercus |
| Auflage | 2018 |
| Seiten | 352 |
| Format | 20,1 x 20,4 x 2,2 cm |
| Gewicht | 248 g |
| Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
| Reihe | Vernon Subutex 1 |
| Übersetzer | Frank Wynne |
| ISBN-10 | 0857055429 |
| EAN | 9780857055422 |
| Bestell-Nr | 85705542EA |
Vernon Subutex: the man, the myth, the punk-lit sensation.
Klappentext:
__SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL 2018__
WHO IS VERNON SUBUTEX?
An urban legend.
A fall from grace.
The mirror who reflects us all.
Vernon Subutex was once the proprietor of Revolver, an infamous music shop in Bastille. His legend spread throughout Paris. But by the 2000s his shop is struggling. With his savings gone, his unemployment benefit cut, and the friend who had been covering his rent suddenly dead, Vernon Subutex finds himself down and out on the Paris streets.
He has one final card up his sleeve. Even as he holds out his hand to beg for the first time, a throwaway comment he once made on Facebook is taking the internet by storm. Vernon does not realise this, but the word is out: Vernon Subutex has in his possession the last filmed recordings of Alex Bleach, the famous musician and Vernon's benefactor, who has only just died of a drug overdose. A crowd of people from record producers to online trolls and porn star s are now on Vernon's trail.
Translated from the French by Frank Wynne
"Thrilling, magnificently audacious" Irish Times
"Brimming with sex, violence and deviant behaviour" Sunday Times
"Virginie Despentes's Vernon Subutex trilogy is the zeitgeistiest thing I ever read" NELL ZINK
Rezension:
Bold and sophisticated, this thrilling, magnificently audacious picaresque is about France and is also about all of us; how loudly we shout, how badly we hurt. It is the story of now. Eileen Battersby Irish Times