Vernon God Little
Subtitle: a 21st century comedy in the presence of death
By: DBC Pierre
Publisher: Isis
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 364
ISBN-13: 9780753171691; 9780753171707
Subjects: School violence; Teenage boys; High school students; Revenge; Fiction; Massacres; Mass media; Large type books
Description: 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.
Notes: Originally published: London : Faber and Faber, 2003.

Man Booker Prize, 2003.