num_pages: 292
description: If Huckleberry Finn were set on the Mexican-American border and written by the creators of South Park, it might read something like this." — San Francisco ChronicleWhen sixteen kids are shot on high school grounds, everyone looks for someone to blame. Meet Vernon Little, under arrest at the sheriff's office, a teenager wearing nothing but yesterday's underwear and his prized logo sneakers. Moments after the shooter, his best buddy, turns the gun on himself, Vernon is pinned as an accomplice. Out for revenge are the townspeople, the cable news networks, and Deputy Vaine Gurie, a woman whose zeal for the Pritikin diet is eclipsed only by her appetite for barbecued ribs from the Bar-B-Chew Barn. So Vernon does what any red-blooded American teenager would do; he takes off for Mexico.Vernon God Little is a provocatively satirical, riotously funny look at violence, materialism, and the American media.
language: English
title: Vernon God Little
titlecomplete: Vernon God Little
genres: Fiction, Humor, Contemporary, Coming Of Age, Comedy, American, Literary Fiction, Literature, Australia, Novels
ratings_count: 32106
places: Acapulco, Texas
awards: awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Booker Prize, awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Guardian First Book Award, awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Whitbread Award
category: First Novel, awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize
category: Comic Fiction
publisher: Harvest Books