Book description
Named as one of the 100 Best Things in the World by GQ magazine,
the riotous adventures of Vernon Gregory Little in small-town Texas
and beachfront Mexico mark one of the most spectacular, irreverent and
bizarre debuts of the 21st century so far. Its depiction of innocence
and simple humanity (all seasoned with a dash of dysfunctional
profanity) in an evil world is never less than astonishing. The only
novel to be set in the barbecue sauce capital of Central Texas, Vernon
God Little suggests that desperate times throw up the most unlikely of
heroes. 'A showpiece of superb comic writing . . . Out of the detritus
of a morally bankrupt society, Pierre has fashioned a work of comic
art.' Sunday Telegraph 'In a just world, this ridiculously funny first
novel would come free with every television set . . . Not since
reading John Kennedy O'Toole's masterpiece, A Confederacy of Dunces .
. . have I laughed so much or felt such sheer delight at the discovery
of a wholly fresh comic voice . . . this novel reads like a modern day
fairytale.' Mail on Sunday
Born in Australia, DBC Pierre spent a lavish upbringing in Mexico
learning the tools of his undoing. He undid himself on three continents
during his twenties, spending his thirties in London and the West
Indies. Having plied a piecemeal trade since childhood as designer,
photographer, film-maker and cartoonist, his first novel, Vernon God
Little, erupted just before his fortieth birthday. It went on to win the
MAN Booker Prize, the Whitbread First Novel Award and the Bollinger
Everyman Woodhouse Award for Comic Writing in 2003. His second novel,
Ludmila's Broken English, was published in 2006. He lives in County
Leitrim, Ireland.
