{"product_id":"vernon-subutex-two-9780857055835","title":"Vernon Subutex Two","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e**\u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e Best Books of 2018**\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFunny, irreverent and scathing \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVirginie Despentes is a true original, a punk rock George Eliot ALEXANDRA KLEEMAN, author of \u003ci\u003eYou Too Could Have a Body Like Mine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRock star Alexandre Bleach might be dead, but he has a secret.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt''s a secret that concerns several people, but the only person who can unlock it is Vernon Subutex, former record shop proprietor turned homeless messiah and guru, last seen hallucinating and feverish on a bench in the parc des Buttes Chaumont.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAïcha wants to know the truth behind the death of her mother, Vodka Satana. And if she finds the bastards responsible, she wants to make them pay, whatever Céleste thinks of her plan.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCéleste wants Aïcha to get a grip and stop hanging around with Subutex''s gang of disciples.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Hyena wants to find the Bleach tapes. She wants to untangle her complicated feelings about Anaïs, her boss'' assistant. An\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlternative Paris at its most compassionate, angry and funny \u003c\/b\u003e. . . Spiky rants on the sick state of bourgeois society enliven and provoke - it's all \u003cb\u003etrès cool\u003c\/b\u003e * The Sunday Times, \"Best books of the last five years\" *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFunny, irreverent and scathing\u003c\/b\u003e * Guardian *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eVirginie Despentes is a true original, a punk rock George Eliot\u003c\/b\u003e with a keen taste for the pitiable innards of her characters: no one else has her slyly penetrating eye, her spiky sense of humor, her razor wit that cuts like wire through the accumulated crud of our age's default thought patterns. In her masterful hands,\u003ci\u003eVernon Subutex\u003c\/i\u003e becomes \u003cb\u003ea droll, hilarious, insightful record of our unfortunate times\u003c\/b\u003e -- ALEXANDRA KLEEMAN * author of You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eVernon Subutex Two\u003c\/i\u003e presents Paris in all its glory and its grime. Sharply translated by Frank Wynne, this is\u003cb\u003e the best multi-volume fiction series since Elena Ferrante\u003c\/b\u003e * 1843 *\u003cbr\u003eVirginie Despentes continues her picaresque tour de force with the same driving energy sustained by \u003cb\u003evicious wit, exasperation, stark insight and compelling empathy\u003c\/b\u003e . . . In her seething Paris of messed-up losers and relentless operators, \u003cb\u003eDespentes exposes a universal society gone mad on greed, fear and ruthlessness\u003c\/b\u003e * Irish Times *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTruthful, brash, brilliant and shocking\u003c\/b\u003e. I was both appalled and mesmerised -- Victoria Hislop * The Week *\u003cbr\u003eVirginie Despentes Vernon Subutex trilogy savages contemporary life . . . \u003ci\u003eVernon Subutex Two\u003c\/i\u003e is equally good and is \u003cb\u003emy book of the year\u003c\/b\u003e * The Sunday Times, \"Best Books of 2018\" *\u003cbr\u003eVirginie Despentes's \u003ci\u003eVernon Subutex\u003c\/i\u003e trilogy is \u003cb\u003ethe zeitgeistiest thing I ever read\u003c\/b\u003e . . . [It] has dupes and assholes and racists and the people they hate and a stunning diversity of internal monologues and trans true love. Like the last decade, it searches for a happy ending that isn't merely personal and can't find it . . . T\u003cb\u003ehese novels with their depth and detail kick TV's sorry ass\u003c\/b\u003e -- Nell Zink * Bustle, \"Best Books of the 2010s\" *\u003cbr\u003eIt's bastards across the board in Virginie Despentes's \u003cb\u003ebrilliantly unshackled \u003c\/b\u003etrilogy \u003ci\u003eVernon Subutex\u003c\/i\u003e . . . What keeps you reading is the voice - \u003cb\u003eacerbic, unconstrained, bitterly funny\u003c\/b\u003e and, despite the book's intimations of enlightenment, perpetually pissed off. * Wall Street Journal *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA satire on fading punk politics . . . Despentes at her most compassionate, and hopeful\u003c\/b\u003e * The White Review *\u003cbr\u003eLike William S. Burroughs updated for the age of WhatsApp, \u003cb\u003eVernon Subutex Two straps our current world to a chair and interrogates the hell out of it\u003c\/b\u003e * The Millions *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA sexed-up epic\u003c\/b\u003e * Publisher's Weekly, starred review *\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Quercus Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48884798783831,"sku":"9780857055835","price":9.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780857055835.jpg?v=1722533510","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/vernon-subutex-two-9780857055835","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}