Virginie Despentes - Böcker

'I write from the realms of the ugly, for the ugly, the frigid, the unfucked and the unfuckables, all those excluded from the great meat market of female flesh, and for all those guys who don't want to be protectors, for those who would like to be...

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**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 spr...

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**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 Alexandr...

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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 VIRGI...

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**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 t...

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"Virginie Despentes's Vernon Subutex trilogy is the zeitgeistiest thing I ever read. Everything about it is contemporary, right down to the fearless woman author who doesn't think of herself as a feminist and gives an impression at least in i...

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Baise-Moi is one of the most controversial French novels of recent years, a punk fantasy that takes female rage to its outer limits. Now the basis for a hit underground film which was banned in France, Baise-Moi is a searing story of two women on ...

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"e;A sticky, smashed, sweaty, laughing too loud, broken teeth, drunker than drunk adventure"e; from the filmmaker and author of the Vernon Subutex novels (Bust Magazine).Baise-Moi is one of the most controversial French novels of recent ye...

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**Sunday Times Best Books of 2018**"e;Funny, irreverent and scathing"e; Guardian"e;Virginie Despentes is a true original, a punk rock George Eliot"e; ALEXANDRA KLEEMAN, author of You Too Could Have a Body Like MineRock star Alexand...

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"e;A literary phenomenon"e; The Times"e;Despentes' writing is intelligent, outspoken, witty, shocking, propulsive and streetwise"e; Times Literary SupplementTHE FINAL VOLUME IN THE EPIC ROCK AND ROLL TRILOGY BY CULT AUTHOR VIRGINIE...

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This on-the-road mystery follows the search for a missing girl, providing a scathing commentary on contemporary life.

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Psychiatric institutions and class difference doom two young lovers from the start in this dark romantic comedy.

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Valentine, the troubled daughter of a well-off but dysfunctional Parisian family, vanishes on her way to school. Inexperienced private detective Lucie Toledo is hired to find the missing teenager, and enlists the help of a formidable agent with a ...

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Uranus is the coldest planet in the solar system, a frozen giant named after a Greek deity. It is also the inspiration for Uranism, a concept coined by the writer Karl Heinrich Ulrichs in 1864 to define the 'third sex' and the rights of ...

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'I write from the realms of the ugly, for the ugly, the frigid, the unfucked and the unfuckables, all those excluded from the great meat market of female flesh, and for all those guys who don't want to be protectors, for those who would like to be...

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A pulpy tale of mismatched twins struggling to embody the perfect woman: "e;Effortlessly cool and slyly spiky, Despentes probes the dynamics of fame, beauty, and female competition, putting her finger on the pulse of what it's like to wear the...

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A pulpy, psychological tale of mismatched twins struggling to embody the role of the perfect woman.

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Qui est Vernon Subutex ?Une légende urbaine.Un ange déchu.Un disparu qui ne cesse de ressurgir.Le détenteur d'un secret.Le dernier témoin d'un monde révolu.L'ultime visage de notre comédie inhumaine.Notre fantôme à tous.

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On retrouve Vernon, toujours SDF, et mal en point. L'ancien disquaire est déconnecté du monde réel, sans ambition ni projets. Il apprend à vivre dans la rue, au côté de Charles, un poivrot collant. Les anciens amis de Vernon continue de le traquer...

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Mit der ihr eigenen Verve und Sprachgewalt nimmt sich Despentes der Themen unserer Zeit an - #MeToo und Social Media, Drogen, Machtmissbrauch, Feminismus. Ungeschönt, aber nicht unversöhnlich hält Despentes unserer Gesellschaft den Spiegel vor. Re...

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