Vernon God Little is het debuut van DBC Pierre dat hem onverwijld de Man Booker Prize en een orkaan aan persaandacht opleverde. Het is een schrijnend en hilarisch avontuur, gesitueerd in het Texaanse plaatsje Martirio - bekend van de barbecuesaus - tijdens de nasleep van een bloedbad op een middelbare school. De roman wordt bevolkt door een meute zonderlingen, freaks, kwekkende huisvrouwen en die ene, ontroerende adolescent met een groot talent om op het goede moment op de verkeer...

WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2003WINNER OF THE WHITBREAD FIRST NOVEL AWARD 2003'Startling . . . explosive and extravagantly satisfying.' Guardian'Dangerous, smart, ridiculous and very funny.' New York TimesMeet fifteen-year-old Vernon Gregory Little. Desperate times call for the most unlikely of heroes .

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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.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 darkly riotous, superbly fast-talking adventure, adapted from the Booker Prize-winning novel.Vernon Little is fifteen years old and lives with his mother in Martirio, a flea-bitten Texan town. His best friend just massacred sixteen of their classmates before killing himself. The town wants vengeance and turns its sights on Vernon, who is arrested at the start of the story.Tanya Ronder's stage adaptation of DBC Pierre's Booker Prizewinning novel Vernon God Little ...