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Vernon Déu Little és una novel·la autènticament personal i diferent que furga en la cara menys favorable de la societat amb una sàtira àcida i intel·ligent i una bona dosi d'humor negre que li han comportat diversos premis literaris, entre els quals el pr

Dopamine City is the story of Lonny Cush, sanitation worker and single parent, kind-hearted and red-blooded, who is trying his best to protect his kids from the hysterical hyper-reality of 21st century life. He lives in an unnamed fictional world city, dominated by a huge tech company akin to Google.

'Hell is other people.' It is a chilling, page-turning Hammer novella by the Booker-Prize-winning author of Vernon God Little. The setting: a faded, lonely guesthouse on the Essex coast. Outside, it's dark, and very foggy. Inside there's no phone or internet reception, no connection with the outside world. Enter Ariel Panek, a promising young academic en route from the USA to an important convention in Amsterdam. With his plane grounded by fog at Stanstead, he has been booked in for the night at the guesthouse. Discombobulated and jetlagged, he falls in with a family who appear to be commemorating an event. But this is no ordinary celebration. And this is no ordinary family. As evening becomes night, Panek realises that he has become caught in an insidious web of other people's secrets and lies, a Sartrian hell from which for him there may be no escape.

'Hell is other people.' This is a chilling, page-turning Hammer novella by the Booker-Prize-winning author of Vernon God Little. The setting: a faded, lonely guesthouse on the Essex coast. Outside, it's dark, and very foggy. Inside there's no phone or internet reception, no connection with the outside world. Enter Ariel Panek, a promising young academic en route from the USA to an important convention in Amsterdam. With his plane grounded by fog at Stanstead, he has been booked in for the night at the guesthouse. Discombobulated and jetlagged, he falls in with a family who appear to be commemorating an event. But this is no ordinary celebration. And this is no ordinary family. As evening becomes night, Panek realises that he has become caught in an insidious web of other people's secrets and lies, a Sartrian hell from which for him there may be no escape.

Fifteen-year-old Vernon Gregory Little is in trouble, and it has something to do with the recent massacre of 16 students at his high school. Soon, the quirky backwater of Martirio, barbecue capital of Texas, is flooded with wannabe CNN hacks, eager for a scapegoat.

WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2003 WINNER OF THE 2003 WHITBREAD FIRST NOVEL PRIZE Named as one of the 100 Best Things in the World by GQ magazine in 2003, the riotous adventures of Vernon Gregory Little in small town Texas and beachfront Mexico mark one of the most spectacular, irreverent and bizarre debuts of the 21st century so far. Its depiction of innocence and simple humanity (all seasoned with a dash of dysfunctional profanity) in an evil world is never less than astonishing. The only novel to be set in the barbecue sauce capital of Central Texas, Vernon God Little suggests that desperate times throw up the most unlikely of heroes. 'A showpiece of superb comic writing ...Out of the detritus of a morally bankrupt society, Pierre has fashioned a work of comic art.' Sunday Telegraph 'In a just world, this ridiculously funny first novel would come free with every television set ...Not since reading John Kennedy O'Toole's masterpiece, A Confederacy of Dunces ...have I laughed so much or felt such sheer delight at the discovery of a wholly fresh comic voice ...this novel reads like a modern day fairytale.' Mail on Sunday

FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINING AUTHOR OF VERNON GOD LITTLE'Pierre's high-risk prose explores and expands the cartoonish, taboo-busting outer edges of literary possibility.' -- Independent***It's a big bad world out there, in Dopamine City.All Lonnie Cush wants is to keep his kids safe.But Shelby-Ann - his little girl, the maddening apple of his eye - has other ideas: Shelby-Ann wants her first smartphone.So new realities are rocketing their way to 37 Palisade Row, where everything will change, every day, and at mortal speed. Until Lonnie finds himself in a stitch: he'll have to join this new world, or wither in it. Or can he mastermind a vanishing act?The story of a hapless father's love and loss, and a speedball, starburst satire, Meanwhile in Dopamine City is a passionate, freewheeling work from the winner of the Booker Prize: a riotous cry for the soul and the flesh and the heart in the cooling bathwater of our automatic times.

Una novela sarcástica, mordaz e irreverente, repleta de escenas delirantes e ingeniosas que revelan una mirada insólita sobre la realidad. Gran Bretaña, en un futuro cercano: el sistema de sanidad público es privatizado, como todo, y la Albion House Institution, un refugio para gente con deformidades de nacimiento sufre los rigores de la economía. Para ahorrar, las autoridades deciden separar a dos hermanos siameses y dejarlos en libertad en el ancho mundo... Entretanto, en otra parte del bosque globalizado, la guerra civil reina en una antigua república soviética. Allí, una mujer joven, Ludmila Ivanova, asesina a su abuelo mudo y sucio, después de que abuse de ella por enésima vez. Extrañamente, los destinos de los siameses londinenses separados y de la intrépida Ludmila se cruzarán, dando lugar a un singular encuentro entre la Europa del este y la occidental.

La vida de Vernon, un joven de quince años, se alterará por la matanza (similar a la de Columbine) que se produce en su instituto. Pronto su pequeña ciudad tejana será invadida por el circo de los medios de comunicación y él se verá acusado de tan horrible crimen (en lugar de su amigo, verdadero culpable).Con manipulaciones interesadas, Vernon se convertirá en el objetivo de la furibunda población de Martirio lo que, tras una serie de acontecimientos delirantes, motivará al protagonista a partir hacia México.Crítica, ironía e inteligencia son los ingredientes de esta novela que rompe los moldes como lo hizo La conjura de los necios de John Kennedy Toole.Con una sátira inteligente que en ocasiones nos dejará la sonrisa helada, el lector se verá sacudido sin remedio por momentos de desorientación y por otros de hilaridad incontenible.