VERNON GOD LITTLE

+ LÄGG TILL

Winner of the 2003 Man Booker Prize. In the town jail of Martirio, Texas ? under the terrifying care of the dynastic Gurie family, and wearing only his New Jack trainers and underpants ? fifteen-year-old Vernon Little is in trouble. His friend has just blown away sixteen of his classmates before turning the gun on himself. And Vernon has become the focus of the whole town's need for vengeance, and the media's appetite for sensational content ? true or not. When the tricky Mr. Lesdema arrives in town ? with a covert mission to promote himself from TV repairman to crack CNN reporter ? Vernon thinks he has an ally. In fact, Lesdema is a villain of Machiavellian proportions. Vernon soon realizes that in this modern world innocence is definitely no defense. One distasteful arrangement with old Mr. Deutschman and $300 later, Vernon is headed for the border, for freedom and Mexico, and...

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