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Vernon Subutex 3 / Virginie Despentes ; translated from the French by Frank Wynne.
Van Pelt Library PQ2664.E7895 V4713 2020
By Request
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Despentes, Virginie, 1969- author.
- Series:
- Despentes, Virginie, 1969- Vernon Subutex ; 3.
- Standardized Title:
- Vernon Subutex 3. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Unemployed--Fiction.
- Unemployed.
- Middle-aged men--Fiction.
- Middle-aged men.
- Friendship--Fiction.
- Friendship.
- Lottery winners--Fiction.
- Lottery winners.
- Revenge--Fiction.
- Revenge.
- Paris (France)--Social life and customs--21st century--Fiction.
- Paris (France).
- Paris (France)--Social conditions--21st century--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Psychological fiction.
- Social problem fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 361 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : MacLehose Press, 2020.
- Summary:
- "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 Aicha and Celeste: 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."--Provided by publisher.
- Notes:
- "First published as Vernon Subutex 3 by Editions Grasset & Fasquelle, Paris, in 2017"--Title page verso.
- Translated from the French.
- "The epic saga... reaches its dramatic conclusion"--Back cover.
- Other Format:
- Ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 9780857059826
- 0857059831
- 9780857059833
- 0857059823
- OCLC:
- 1151982377
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