Vernon God Little - Couverture souple

When 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.

DBC Pierre was born Peter Finlay in 1961 in Australia. He was brought up in Mexico, and lived as a recluse and a conman for most of the 1990s. He got a job as a graphic designer and moved to Ireland in 2000, where he completed Vernon God Little. Tanya Ronder adapted Peribanez for the Young Vic in 2003 and Blood Wedding (which starred Gael Garcia Bernal) at the Almeida in 2005.