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Vernon God Little / D.B.C. Pierre.
LIBRA - Special PR9619.4.P54 V47 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pierre, D. B. C.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- High school students--Fiction.
- High school students.
- School violence.
- School violence--Fiction.
- Teenage boys--Fiction.
- Teenage boys.
- Massacres--Fiction.
- Massacres.
- Texas--Fiction.
- Texas.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Black humor (Literature)
- Bildungsromans.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 277 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First Harvest edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Orlando : Harcourt, 2004.
- Summary:
- When sixteen kids are shot on high school grounds, everyone looks for someone to blame. Meet Vernon Little, under arrest at the sheriff's office, a teenager wearing nothing but yesterday's underwear and his prized logo sneakers. Moments after the shooter, his best buddy, turns the gun on himself, Vernon is pinned as an accomplice. Out for revenge are the townspeople, the cable news networks, and Deputy Vaine Gurie, a woman whose zeal for the Pritikin diet is eclipsed only by her appetite for barbecued ribs from the Bar-B-Chew Barn. So Vernon does what any red-blooded American teenager would do; he takes off for Mexico. Vernon God Little is a provocatively satirical, riotously funny look at violence, materialism, and the American media.
- ISBN:
- 0156029987
- 9780156029988
- OCLC:
- 54487541
- Online:
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- Publisher description
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