{"product_id":"vernon-subutex-1-paperback","title":"Vernon Subutex 1 - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eVirginie Despentes\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eFrank Wynne\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the provocative writer and filmmaker Virginie Despentes comes volume one of her acclaimed trilogy of novels, \u003ci\u003eVernon Subutex\u003c\/i\u003e--short-listed for the Man Booker International Prize and the basis for the TV series of the same name. But who is Vernon Subutex?\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eVernon Subutex was once the proprietor of Revolver, an infamous music shop in Paris, where his name was legend throughout Paris. By the 2000s, however, with the arrival of the internet and the decline in CD and vinyl sales, his shop is struggling, like so many others. When it closes, Subutex finds himself with nowhere to go and nothing to do. Before long, his savings are gone, and when the mysterious rock star who had been covering his rent suddenly drops dead of a drug overdose, Subutex finds himself launched on an epic saga of couch-surfing, boozing, and coke-snorting before finally winding up homeless. Just as he resigns himself to life as a panhandler, a throwaway comment he once made on Facebook takes the internet by storm. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe word is out: Subutex is lugging around a bunch of VHS tapes shot by that same dead rock musician--his last recordings on this earth. Soon a crowd of wild characters, from screen writers to social media groupies, from porn stars to failed musicians to random misfits, are hot on Vernon's trail . . . but Vernon is none the wiser. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003e\"Virginie Despentes's \u003ci\u003eVernon Subutex\u003c\/i\u003e trilogy is the zeitgeistiest thing I ever read. Everything about it is contemporary, right down to the fearless woman author who doesn't think of herself as a feminist and gives an impression at least in interviews of habitually killing rapists.\" --Nell Zink, \u003ci\u003eBustle\u003c\/i\u003e, \"The Best Books Of The 2010s\" \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eVirginie Despentes\u003c\/b\u003e is a writer and filmmaker. She worked in an independent record store in the early '90s, was a sex worker, and published her first novel, \u003ci\u003eBaise Moi\u003c\/i\u003e, when she was twenty-three. She adapted the novel for the screen in 2000, codirecting with the porn star Coralie Trinh Thi. Upon release, it became the first film to be banned in France in twenty-eight years. Despentes is the author of more than fifteen other works, including the \u003ci\u003eVernon Subutex Trilogy, Apocalypse Baby\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBye Bye Blondie\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePretty Things\u003c\/i\u003e, and the essay collection \u003ci\u003eKing Kong Theory\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrank Wynne\u003c\/b\u003e has translated the work of many authors, including Michel Houellebecq, Boualem Sansal, Frédéric Beigbeder, and Ahmadou Kourouma. He won the International Dublin Literary Award with Houellebecq for \u003ci\u003eThe Elementary Particles\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 352\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 7.4 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 05, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51762303631648,"sku":"9780374283247","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/c99cee0677f4d81abad219f930137278.webp?v=1780219132","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/vernon-subutex-1-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}