Conville & Walsh Ltd

VERNON GOD LITTLE
DBC Pierre
Praise for VERNON GOD LITTLE
Conville & Walsh Ltd
Fiction
Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2003
Winner of the Bollinger Everyman Woodhouse Award for Comic Fiction 2003
Winner of the Whitbread First Novel Award 2003
Not since reading John Kennedy O’Toole’s masterpiece A CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES twenty years ago have I
laughed so much or felt such sheer delight at the discovery of a wholly fresh comic voice
– Craig Brown, MAIL ON SUNDAY
Assured, impassioned and chilling… a dark masterpiece
– SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
[Vernon is] not just a rebel for the Eminem generation, but a boy of such sweetness he makes death row a
respectable address
– INDEPENDENT
Set in the barbecue-sauce capital of Texas in the aftermath of a high-school massacre, VERNON GOD
LITTLE is peopled by a cast of grotesques, freaks, cold-blooded chattering housewives (all
mysteriously widowed) and one very special adolescent with an unfortunate talent for being in the
wrong place at the wrong time. It is a riotous adventure story which cuts a satirical swathe through
the heart of contemporary America.
DBC Pierre has worked as a designer and cartoonist, and currently lives in Ireland. His first novel,
VERNON GOD LITTLE, won the 2003 Bollinger Everyman Woodhouse Award, the 2003 Whitbread
Prize for Best First Novel, and the 2003 Man Booker Prize, and is sold in 43 countries.
UK Publisher Faber
US Publisher Canongate US
UK Publication 20 January 2003
Length 277 pages
Agent CBC
All rights available excluding UK & Commonwealth, US (Canongate), Bangladesh (Sandesh), Brazil (Record),
Bulgaria (Iztok-Zapok), China (Ten Points Publishing, complex characters; Yilin, simplified characters), Croatia
(Marjan Sare), Czech Republic (Euromedia), Denmark (Hr Ferdinand), Estonia (Pegasus), France (Editions du
Seuil), Georgia (Bakur Sulakauri), Germany (Aufbau), Greece (Ellinika Grammata), Hungary (Ulpius Haz), Iceland
(Bjatur), Indonesia (Fresh Book), Israel (Matar), Italy (Einaudi), Japan (Sony), Korea (Daehan), Latvia (Zvaigzne),
Lithuania (Tyto Alba), Macedonia (Terra Magica-Skopje), Netherlands (Podium), Norway (Cappelen), Poland
(Muza), Portugal (Gradiva), Romania (Humanitas), Russia (Rosmen), Serbia & Montenegro (Alfa Narodna),
Slovenia (Ucila International), Spain (Destino; Catalan), Sweden (Alphabeta), Thailand (Poema), Turkey (Plan B),
Yugoslavia (Alfa-Narodna)
Film rights: Aimee Peyronet, Wild Child Films
Abridged audio rights: Faber/Penguin; unabridged audio rights: F. W. Howes; World stage rights (excluding
Germany): Cuba Pictures Ltd
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