Virginie Despentes
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Publisher
The Feminist Press at CUNY
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
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The filmmaker and author of the Vernon Subutex trilogy delivers "a terrific page-turner . . . a compelling punk, queerish spin on the noir genre" (Maggie Nelson, author of The Argonauts).
Apocalypse Baby is a smart, fast-paced mystery about a missing adolescent girl traveling through Paris and Barcelona. She is tailed by two mismatched private investigators: the Hyena, part ruthless interrogator, part oversexed rock star,...
Apocalypse Baby is a smart, fast-paced mystery about a missing adolescent girl traveling through Paris and Barcelona. She is tailed by two mismatched private investigators: the Hyena, part ruthless interrogator, part oversexed rock star,...
Author
Publisher
Grove Atlantic
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
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"A sticky, smashed, sweaty, laughing too loud, broken teeth, drunker than drunk adventure" from the filmmaker and author of the Vernon Subutex novels (Bust Magazine).
Baise-Moi is one of the most controversial French novels of recent years, a punk fantasy that takes female rage to its outer limits. The basis for a hit underground film which was banned in France, Baise-Moi is a searing story of two women on a rampage that...
Baise-Moi is one of the most controversial French novels of recent years, a punk fantasy that takes female rage to its outer limits. The basis for a hit underground film which was banned in France, Baise-Moi is a searing story of two women on a rampage that...
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English
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Stunning Claudine and gloomy Pauline pretend to be one person so that Claudine can be famous, but just as things take off, Claudine commits suicide. Pauline hatches a new scheme, taking on her dead sister's identity, inhabiting her apartment, and reading her emails-slowly realizing the cost of femininity is to dazzle on the outside while rotting on the inside.
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English
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A "rock and roll Zola": short-listed for the International Man Booker Prize, a European bestseller, and the basis of a big-budget TV series
From the provocative writer and filmmaker Virginie Despentes comes volume one of her acclaimed trilogy of novels, Vernon Subutex-short-listed for the Man Booker International Prize. But who is Vernon Subutex?
Vernon Subutex was once the proprietor of Revolver, an infamous music shop in Paris, where his name...
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English
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The French novel taking the world by storm: an ultracontemporary Dangerous Liaisons about sex, feminism, and addiction.
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...