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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 hole-in-the-wall town is blanketed under a media siege, and Vernon finds himself blamed for the killing (rather than the real culprit, a friend of Vernon's). Eulalio Ledesma is his particular nemesis, manipulating things so that Vernon becomes the fulcrum for the bizarre and vengeful impulses of the townspeople of Martirio. After a truly surrealistic set of events, Vernon finds himself heading for a fateful assignation in Mexico with the delectable Taylor Figueros (everyone in the book has names as odd as the author's).
By setting his novel in the barbecue-sauce capital of Central Texas, Pierre ensures that his narrative is going to be some distance from naturalistic writing. And as a scalpel-like satirical incision into the mores of contemporary America, reality TV and media hysteria, Vernon God Little often reads like a fractured modern-day take on such novels as John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces. --Barry Forshaw -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
Vernon God Little is a daring novel and demands a patient reader, not because it is challenging to read--Pierre's prose flows effortlessly, only occasionally slipping from the unmistakable voice of his hero--but because the book skates so precariously between the almost taboo subject of school violence and the literary gamesmanship of postmodern fiction. Yet, as the novel unfolds, Pierre's parodic version of American culture never crosses the line into caricature, even when it climaxes in a death-row reality TV show. And Vernon, whose cynicism and smart-ass "learnings" give way to a poignant curiosity about the meaning of life, becomes a fully human, profoundly sympathetic character. --Patrick O'Kelley -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
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With surgical pleasure, Pierre dissects society's failure to cope with tragedy or with the fact that some of us do go postal, provided enough things go terribly wrong in our lives. He sheds a grim light on a society that lives more through media than through itself and on the ritualized coping strategies of our western world.
Four stars for the story and an additional one for how it is being told. Can't wait to read the next novel by Pierre really.
Hoert sich deprimierend an? Nicht im geringsten! Vernon ist witzig, seine Beobachtungen scharfsinnig, seine verrueckten Familienmitglieder und sonstige Bekannte verhalten sich absolut anders, als man es in so einer Situation erwarten wuerde, und die amerikanische Presse wiederum genau so wie man es nun einmal erwartet.
Ich habe das Buch in einem Tag durchgelesen und sofort wieder von vorne angefangen. Ehrlich! DBC Pierre's erster Roman ist einfach nur toll - ich freue mich jetzt schon auf sein naechstes Werk. Kaufen!!!
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