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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 and the basis for the TV series of the same name. But who is Vernon Subutex?
Vernon Subutex was once the proprietor of Revolver, an…
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The trilogy by Parisian novelist Virginie Despentes seems to have an unpromising premise - a record shop owner loses his business and his home and is forced to wander the streets of Paris in search of redemption. But through an accumulation of comic detail, varied characters, and a mesmerizingly acerbic style, the three novels blossom into an Homeric epic than threatens to capture all of contemporary France.
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