"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 ChronicleHailed by critics and lauded by readers for its riotously funny and scathing portrayal of America in an age of trial by media, materialism, and violence, Vernon God Little was an international sensation when it was first published in 2003 and awarded the prestigious M...

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...

In the town jail of Martirio - the barbecue sauce capital of Central Texas - sits fifteen-year-old Vernon Little, dressed only in New Jack trainers and underpants. He is in trouble.His friend Jesus has just blown away sixteen of his classmates before turning the gun on himself. And Vernon, as his only buddy, has become the focus of the town's need for vengeance.The news of the tragedy has resulted in the quirky backwater being flooded with wannabe CNN hacks all-too-keen to ...

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 ...