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Vernon Subutex Three

By: Virginie Despentes

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A literary phenomenon" The Times "Despentes' writing is intelligent, outspoken, witty, shocking, propulsive and streetwise" Times Literary Supplement THE FINAL VOLUME IN THE EPIC ROCK AND ROLL TRILOGY BY CULT AUTHOR VIRGINIE DESPENTES Although it means leaving behind the community of disciples who have followed him on his travels and assembled at his raves and gatherings, Vernon Subutex is compelled to return to Paris to visit the dentist. Once back in the city, he learns that Charles, his old friend from his days on the Paris streets, has died and left him half of a lottery win. But when Vernon returns to his disciples with news of this windfall, it does not take long before his followers start to turn on each other, and his good fortune provokes ruptures in his once harmonious community. Meanwhile, storm clouds are gathering for Aïcha and Céleste: Laurent Dopalet is determined to make them pay for their attack on him, whatever it takes and whoever gets hurt. And before long, the whole of Paris will be reeling in the wake of the terrorist atrocities of 2015 and 2016, and all the characters in this kaleidoscopic portrait of a city will be forced to a reckoning with each other. Translated from the French by Frank Wynne

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Vernon Subutex Two

By: Virginie Despentes

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Vernon Subutex Two

By: Virginie Despentes

**Sunday Times Best Books of 2018** "Funny, irreverent and scathing" Guardian "Virginie Despentes is a true original, a punk rock George Eliot" ALEXANDRA KLEEMAN, author of You Too Could Have a Body Like Mine Rock star Alexandre Bleach might be dead, but he has a secret. It'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. Aïcha 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. Céleste wants Aïcha to get a grip and stop hanging around with Subutex's gang of disciples. The Hyena wants to find the Bleach tapes. She wants to untangle her complicated feelings about Anaïs, her boss' assistant. And speaking of her boss, she does not want Laurent Dopalet to discover how badly she has double-crossed him. Laurent Dopalet wants the Hyena to find and destroy the Bleach tapes. He wants to forget he ever knew Vodka Satana. He wants people to stop graffitiing his apartment with ludicrous allegations. Above all, he wants people to understand: NONE OF THIS IS HIS FAULT. THE SEQUEL TO VERNON SUBUTEX 1, SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2018. Translated from the French by Frank Wynne

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Vernon Subutex 2

A Novel

By: Virginie Despentes

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Vernon Subutex 2

A Novel

By: Virginie Despentes

Part social epic, part punk-rock thriller, writer/filmmaker Virginie Despentes’s Vernon Subutex trilogy continues the Man Booker International Prize shortlisted sprawling tale of an ex-record shop clerk’s celebrity fortunes and misfortunes. Rock star Alex Bleach might be dead, but he has a secret. It’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. He has tapes of Alex that will shake the world. The hunt is on, and the wolves are closing in. Meanwhile, the cast of lovers and killers in Vernon’s orbit is in violent disarray. Aïcha wants to know the truth behind the death of her mother, the porn star Vodka Satana. And if she finds the bastards responsible, she wants to make them pay, whatever Céleste thinks of her plan. Céleste wants Aïcha to get a grip and stop hanging around with Subutex’s gang of disciples. The Hyena wants to find the Bleach tapes. She wants to untangle her complicated feelings about Anaïs, her boss’s assistant. And speaking of her boss, she does not want Laurent Dopalet to discover how badly she has double-crossed him. Big-shot producer Laurent Dopalet wants the Hyena to find and destroy the Bleach tapes. He wants to forget he ever knew Vodka Satana. He wants people to stop graffitiing his apartment with ludicrous allegations. Above all, he wants people to understand: NONE OF THIS IS HIS FAULT. "Virginie Despentes's Vernon Subutex trilogy is the zeitgeistiest thing I ever read . . . [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 . . . These novels with their depth and detail kick TV's sorry ass." —Nell Zink, Bustle, "The Best Books Of The 2010s

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0374283257

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Vernon Subutex 3

A Novel

By: Virginie Despentes

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Vernon Subutex 3

A Novel

By: Virginie Despentes

One of Vulture's most anticipated books of 2021 Paris may burn, the world may crumble, but Vernon Subutex shall reign supreme! —The final installment of writer/filmmaker Virginie Despentes’s Man Booker International Prize shortlisted punk-rock trilogy. As storm clouds gather, portending a final reckoning, ersatz rave-cult leader Vernon Subutex decides to return to Paris. Even if it means leaving behind his disciples. He has to. He’s got a dentist’s appointment. Back in the city, he learns that an old friend from his days homeless on the Paris streets has died and left him half of a lottery win. But when Vernon returns to his commune with news of this windfall, it’s not long before his disciples turn on each other. Such good fortune does not accord with the principles Vernon has handed down. Meanwhile, the monstrous film producer Laurent Dopalet is determined to make Aïcha and Céleste pay for their attack on him, whatever it takes and whoever gets hurt. And, before long, the whole of Paris will be reeling in the wake of the terrorist atrocities of 2015 and 2016, and all the characters in this kaleidoscopic portrait of a city and era will be forced to confront one another one last time. In the wake of all this chaos and hate, the question will rise again: After all he’s been through, who is Vernon Subutex? And the answer: He is the future. Virginie Despentes’s epochal trilogy ends with Vernon Subutex 3—in fire, blood, and even forgiveness. But not everyone will survive to see the dawning of the golden age of Subutex.

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0374719535

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Vernon Subutex One

By: Virginie Despentes

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Vernon Subutex One

By: Virginie Despentes

**SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL 2018** WHO IS VERNON SUBUTEX? An urban legend. A fall from grace. The mirror who reflects us all. Vernon Subutex was once the proprietor of Revolver, an infamous music shop in Bastille. His legend spread throughout Paris. But by the 2000s his shop is struggling. With his savings gone, his unemployment benefit cut, and the friend who had been covering his rent suddenly dead, Vernon Subutex finds himself down and out on the Paris streets. He has one final card up his sleeve. Even as he holds out his hand to beg for the first time, a throwaway comment he once made on Facebook is taking the internet by storm. Vernon does not realise this, but the word is out: Vernon Subutex has in his possession the last filmed recordings of Alex Bleach, the famous musician and Vernon's benefactor, who has only just died of a drug overdose. A crowd of people from record producers to online trolls and porn stars are now on Vernon's trail. Translated from the French by Frank Wynne "Thrilling, magnificently audacious" Irish Times "Brimming with sex, violence and deviant behaviour" Sunday Times "Virginie Despentes's Vernon Subutex trilogy is the zeitgeistiest thing I ever read" NELL ZINK

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Bye Bye Blondie

By: Virginie Despentes

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Bye Bye Blondie

By: Virginie Despentes

In a wrecked modern version of a romance novel, acclaimed French writer Virginie Despentes pokes at the simultaneous ecstasy and banality of love in an age of psychiatry and punk. Gloria lives in seething rage, lashing out at everyone—particularly, a string of bewildered boyfriends—at the local bar. But when her latest explosion leaves her out on the street, she unexpectedly runs into famed television personality Eric Muir. Incidentally, he’s also her teenage boyfriend, and the one who started it all. Once upon a time, Gloria and Eric met while institutionalized, and then became a mascot couple for those homeless and high on a noisy mix of drugs, music, and counterculture. Now, twenty years later, Gloria is enamored by youthful love resurrected and determined to immortalize their story by writing a screenplay. Whisked away to Paris, she’s transformed from a provincial loose cannon into an urbane party guest. But navigating life and love isn’t any easier for the middle-aged. Cutting deep to unearth the marriage of institutional violence and heterosexual relationships, Bye Bye Blondie illustrates how young women are continuously dragged down and neglected, and then dangled false offers of fame in lieu of real, redemptive recognition.

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The Feminist Press at CUNY

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1558619283

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Dear Dickhead

A Novel

By: Virginie Despentes

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Dear Dickhead

A Novel

By: Virginie Despentes

Epic . . . Brash and provocative . . . [A] riveting exploration of feminism and sexism . . . Readers will be awed." ―Publishers Weekly (starred review) The French novel taking the world by storm: an ultracontemporary Dangerous Liaisons about sex, feminism, and addiction. Dear Dickhead, I read your post on Insta. You’re like a pigeon shitting on my shoulder as you flap past. It’s shitty and unpleasant. Waah, waah, waah, I’m a pissy little pantywaist, no one loves me so I whimper like a Chihuahua in the hope someone will notice me. Congratulations: you’ve got your fifteen minutes of fame! You want proof? I’m writing to you. Oscar is a B-list novelist in his forties. He used to be an alcoholic and a cokehead, but now he keeps himself busy by ranting on social media. When Rebecca, an actress whose looks he insulted, sends him an angry email, they strike up a combative correspondence—at the very moment that Oscar is accused of sexual harassment by his former publicist. What ensues is a no-holds-barred conversation about life under the patriarchy, and above all about addiction—to drugs, to alcohol, to the internet, to rage. Virginie Despentes, the celebrated author of King Kong Theory, has written her breakthrough book: a Dangerous Liaisons for our time. We follow Rebecca and Oscar as they develop an unlikely friendship and argue over questions of right and wrong in a city—Paris—where pleasure, excess, and freedom rule the day, or used to. Dear Dickhead is a guns-blazing novel about a culture that makes men and women sick, and about how the search for feeling leaves us addicted to what makes us feel. The result is a provocative and unmissable book from the author hailed by The Guardian as France’s “rock and roll Zola.”

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Dear Dickhead

By: Virginie Despentes

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Dear Dickhead

By: Virginie Despentes

Brilliant - funny, wise and completely addictive - a work of angry, outrageous and hilarious genius" VICTORIA HISLOP "Full of energy and blistering rationality" LISA McINERNEY "A must-read . . . While waiting for society to evolve, Virginie Despentes stays the same" Vogue Dear Dickhead, I read the piece you posted on Insta. You're like a pigeon shitting on my shoulder as you flap past. It's shitty and unpleasant. Congratulations: you've had your fifteen minutes of fame! You want proof? Here I am writing to you. Rebecca Latté is a famous actress in her fifties, perhaps past the peak of her career. Oscar Jayack is a middle-aged, moderately successful author who, in the wake of the #MeToo movement, has been accused of sexual harassment by his former publicist-turned-feminist blogger Zoé Katana. When Oscar insults Rebecca's appearance on Instagram, she sends a scorching reply and the pair fall into a spiral of mutual antipathy. In back-and-forth emails, they vie for the last word, finding common ground in their experiences of addiction, assessing the changing world around them as Covid locks down Paris, and reluctantly beginning to lean on one another. A novel of rage, irreverence and vulnerability, exploring ageing, gender, privilege, addiction and consent, Dear Dickhead is an excoriating encapsulation of our times and of the broken human beings trying to make sense of it. "Virginie Despentes writes with a harpoon . . . A queer Castor. A grunge Jane Austen. A punk Pythia. A bacchante rebelling against the patriarchal order" Causeur Translated from the French by Frank Wynne

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King Kong Theory

By: Virginie Despentes

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King Kong Theory

By: Virginie Despentes

Out of print in the U.S. for far too long, writer and filmmaker Virginie Despentes’s autobiographical feminist manifesto is back—in an improved English translation—“blistering with anger, and so precisely phrased that it feels an injustice to summarize it” (Nadja Spiegelman, New York Review of Books). I write from the realms of the ugly, for the ugly, the old, the bull dykes, the frigid, the unfucked, the unfuckable, the hysterics, the freaks, all those excluded from the great meat market of female flesh. And if I’m starting here it’s because I want to be crystal clear: I’m not here to make excuses, I’m not here to bitch. I wouldn’t swap places with anyone because being Virginie Despentes seems to me a more interesting gig than anything else out there. Powerful, provocative, and personal, King Kong Theory is a candid account of how the author of Baise-Moi and Vernon Subutex came to be Virginie Despentes. Drawing from personal experience, Despentes shatters received ideas about rape and prostitution, and explodes common attitudes about sex and gender. An autobiography, a call for revolt, a manifesto for a new punk feminism, King Kong Theory is Despentes’s most beloved and reviled work, and is here made available again in a brilliant new translation by Frank Wynne.

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Dear Dickhead

A Novel

By: Virginie Despentes

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A Novel

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Bye Bye Blondie

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Vernon Subutex 1

By: Virginie Despentes

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Vernon Subutex 1

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Primeiro volume da trilogia de culto Vernon Subutex - um romance imperdível que retrata com crueza e audácia a sociedade europeia contemporânea. Finalista do International Booker Prize Vernon Subutex faz parte de uma espécie em vias de extinção. Proprietário de uma loja de discos, viveu os anos 80 e 90 seguindo religiosamente a trindade sexo, drogas e rock 'n' roll. Passados vinte anos, Vernon depara com um novo mundo: a sua loja fechou, a maioria dos seus amigos morreu ou assentou, e o seu velho amigo, a estrela de rock Alex Bleach, acaba de desaparecer, vítima de overdose. Sem emprego, casa ou planos, o futuro de Vernon passa agora pelas ruas de Paris. Os dados da sorte, no entanto, continuam a rolar e, graças a um comentário deixado no Facebook, espalha-se a notícia de que Vernon tem em seu poder algo de muito valioso: três cassetes de vídeo que Bleach, durante uma noite de farra, deixou como testamento. Entre produtores, estrelas porno e fãs desocupados, Vernon não faz ideia da multidão esfomeada que tem no seu encalço. Com capítulos curtos e ritmo acelerado, Vernon Subutex 1 é um romance imperdível, um retrato cru e audaz da sociedade europeia contemporânea, definido pela crítica como «parte épico social, parte thriller punk rock, escrito com uma fúria que nos atinge em cheio como um murro». Tradução do francês de Pedro Ventura. Os elogios da crítica: «Um romance audaz e modernamente pícaro, escrito numa prosa vívida e fluida, que, numa prova de risco e ousadia, deixaria o senhor Houellebecq lá para trás.» José Riço Direitinho, Público «Isto não é um romance, é um eletrocardiograma.» Le Figaro Littéraire «V ernon Subutex é um romance notável que simplesmente nos perturba. Despentes é uma escritora extraordinária.» L'Express «Raramente o leitor se entusiasmará assim com uma galáxia tal de personagens.» Le Point «Uma epopeia parisiense à la Zola, centrada tanto na classe como no sexo.» The New York Book Review « Vernon Subutex é um grande romance sobre os fracassos do neoliberalismo.» Three Percent

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ELSINORE

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9897877673

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Cher connard

By: Virginie Despentes

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Cher connard

By: Virginie Despentes

« Cher connard, J’ai lu ce que tu as publié sur ton compte Insta. Tu es comme un pigeon qui m’aurait chié sur l’épaule en passant. C’est salissant, et très désagréable. Ouin ouin ouin je suis une petite baltringue qui n’intéresse personne et je couine comme un chihuahua parce que je rêve qu’on me remarque. Gloire aux réseaux sociaux : tu l’as eu, ton quart d’heure de gloire. La preuve : je t’écris. » Après le triomphe de sa trilogie Vernon Subutex, le grand retour de Virginie Despentes avec ces Liaisons dangereuses ultra-contemporaines. Roman de rage et de consolation, de colère et d’acceptation, où l’amitié se révèle plus forte que les faiblesses humaines...

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2246826527

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Apocalipsis bebé

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Apocalipsis bebé

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«Despentes se ha convertido en una especie de heroína de culto, una santa patrona de las mujeres invisibles.» The New York Times Valentine, una adolescente problemática que vive en el seno de una familia acomodada en París, ha desaparecido de camino a la escuela. Para encontrarla, su abuela contrata a una detective privada sin experiencia llamada Lucie Toledo, que iniciará una desesperada búsqueda en compañía de La Hiena, una magnética investigadora con métodos poco ortodoxos y por la cual Lucie se siente tan fascinada como intimidada. En una épica investigación, ambas viajarán de París a Barcelona siguiendo el rastro de todos los que se han cruzado con Valentine: bandas de hardcore, okupas, estudiantes burguesas o monjas con segundas intenciones; un laberinto de personajes cuyas vidas se entrelazan peligrosamente con la de Valentine, y que desembocará en un apoteósico final. Entre la sátira social, el thriller contemporáneo y el romance lésbico, Despentes explora en esta novela las secuelas de la desigualdad social en Europa, así como el hedonismo destructivo de una juventud perdida. Apocalipsis bebé es un retrato actual que, desde la primera página, late gracias al magistral y corrosivo estilo narrativo de Despentes, que ganó el Prix Renaudot en 2010 con esta misma novela. La critica dice: «La provocadora Despentes destaca como líder de una generación alegremente libertaria y desinhibida.» -L’Express «Una obra de increíble riqueza, a medio camino entre el thriller y la road movie, la sátira distópica y la ciencia ficción.» -Elle «Una obra profundamente amena en la que Despentes despelleja las almas hasta llegar a los huesos.» -Marianne «Hay elementos clásicos del noir [...] que triunfan. Dentro de estos tropos familiares, Despentes explora personajes profundamente defectuosos pero interesantes.» -Kirkus Reviews «Despentes ha vuelto a crear un personaje femenino explotado que decide armarse. Aquellos que la subestiman serán, en última instancia, los castigados.» -Bookforum Magazine

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Baise-moi

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Baise-moi

By: Virginie Despentes

Nadine et Manu sont deux filles de leur époque, à une nuance près : elles refusent de subir la vie, ses frustrations et ses défaites. Alors, elles forcent le destin à accomplir leur volonté, persuadées que tout ce qui ne les tuera pas les rendra plus fortes. De casses de supermarchés en revanches sanglantes, elles deviennent des prédatrices insatiables et sans scrupules, parsemant leur sale balade de sentences bien brutales, syncopées et implacables. [Source : 4eme de couv.]

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Vernon Subutex Three

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Bye Bye Blondie

Bye Bye Blondie

Dear Dickhead

Dear Dickhead

Dear Dickhead

Dear Dickhead

King Kong Theory

King Kong Theory

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Bye Bye Blondie

Bye Bye Blondie

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Vernon Subutex 1

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