Publisher's Synopsis
"At last! A Booker Prize winner that one can say with confidence will be read and enjoyed 20 years from now." David Robson, SUNDAY TELEGRAPH "I've just read VERNON GOD LITTLE and can confirm that everything you've heard is true: it's hilarious, tragic, wise, dumb, black, joyful.' Paul Murray, IRISH TIMES "...you are likely to be in a vulnerable state, dazed by the powerful Texas twang that vibrates through the dialogue and struck dumb by Vernon's fierce longing to escape Martirio." GUARDIAN WINNER OF THE 2003 MAN BOOKER PRIZE The surprise winner of the 2003 Man Booker Prize is a tale of a boy wrongly accused of a horrific crime VERNON GOD LITTLE is the only novel quite unlike any other and quite possibly the only novel to be set in the barbecue sauce capital of Central Texas Teenager Vernon Gregory Little's life has been changed by the Columbine-style slaughter of a group of students at his high school. Soon his home town is blanketed under a media siege, and Vernon finds himself blamed for the killing. Vernon finds himself drawn into a series of increasingly bizarre circumstances and decides to take off for Mexico and a date, with the delectable Taylor Figueros. D.B.C. Pierre became the third Australian to win the Man Booker Prize and has also been shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel Award and the Guardian First Book Prize.
