Vernon Subutex 2
A Novel
by Virginie Despentes
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Pub Date Jul 07 2020 | Archive Date Sep 16 2021
Farrar, Straus and Giroux | FSG Originals
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Description
Part social epic, part punk-rock thriller, writer/filmmaker Virginie Despentes’s Vernon Subutex trilogy continues the Man Booker International Prize shortlisted sprawling tale of an ex-record shop clerk’s celebrity fortunes and misfortunes.
The basis for the TV show of the same name available on streaming.
Rock star Alex Bleach might be dead, but he has a secret. It’s a secret that concerns several people, but the only person who can unlock it is Vernon Subutex, former record shop proprietor turned homeless messiah and guru, last seen hallucinating and feverish on a bench. He has tapes of Alex that will shake the world. The hunt is on, and the wolves are closing in.
Meanwhile, the cast of lovers and killers in Vernon’s orbit is in violent disarray. Aïcha wants to know the truth behind the death of her mother, the porn star Vodka Satana. And if she finds the bastards responsible, she wants to make them pay, whatever Céleste thinks of her plan. Céleste wants Aïcha to get a grip and stop hanging around with Subutex’s gang of disciples. The Hyena wants to find the Bleach tapes. She wants to untangle her complicated feelings about Anaïs, her boss’s assistant. And speaking of her boss, she does not want Laurent Dopalet to discover how badly she has double-crossed him.
Big-shot producer Laurent Dopalet wants the Hyena to find and destroy the Bleach tapes. He wants to forget he ever knew Vodka Satana. He wants people to stop graffitiing his apartment with ludicrous allegations. Above all, he wants people to understand: NONE OF THIS IS HIS FAULT.
"Virginie Despentes's Vernon Subutex trilogy is the zeitgeistiest thing I ever read." —Nell Zink, Bustle, "The Best Books of the 2010s"
Advance Praise
“[Vernon Subutex is] a sprawling Parisian epic à la Zola . . . [an] extraordinary act of creation and destruction, a realistic Paris evoked, transformed, and torn apart.” ―Nadja Spiegelman, New York Review of Books
"A worthy, anarchic sequel for the lost souls and beautiful losers of Paris' blank generation." ―Kirkus Reviews
"Despentes . . . makes an improbably intricate latticework of strange bedfellows brilliantly come to life. 'Relationships,' observes the Hyena, 'feed on events that seem trivial, but each one is a screw that turns and opens the way to unexpected levels of understanding.' Such is the snowballing effect of this sexed-up epic, an achievement greater than the sum of its wildly colorful parts." ―Publishers Weekly, starred review
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9780374283254 |
| PRICE | $17.00 (USD) |
| PAGES | 368 |
