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PIERRE**, D. B. C [pseud Peter Finlay]: : VERNON GOD LITTLE. [Uncorrected Proof copy,Export p/back.]

LONDON.Faber and Faber Limited,2003.

ISBN 0571215157.

UK,small 8vo wraps,Uncorrected Proof copy (Export paperback),1st edn.True first editions of this Booker Prize winning novel are very scarce,and this Proof copy precedes that issue and is the first appearance before production from the publisher. [Often of limited availability,the text of a forthcoming book,is printed and bound in softcovers for use by the author,editors,proof-readers and some favoured reviewers.For undecorated printed wraps, with minimal publication data imprinted - the produced/ released number of copies would almost certainly be less than 500,and most probably would tend to be around 200 copies.For glossy pictorial illustrated wrappers,produced numbers are often higher than 200,but either have a scarcity to them.Often errors or earlier versions of text appear in these proofs. Versions where the text has changed considerably are obviously considered more desirable by their nature. Forthcoming publishing date 20 January,2003.] Near MINT.Wrapped+protected from day of pre-issue - so NO owner inscrptn,NO price-removal from cover and NO reading creases to spine/ backstrip.Bright,crisp,clean and unblemished, sharp-cornered.wrap-around colour pictorial illustrated card covers with b/w lettering to both front and spine,rear cover with white lettered story precis and extract; with negligible shelf-wear to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present.Top+fore-edges pristine,bright and unblemished,lower edges with faint and very minimal sporadic spotting (this spotting only,preventing its listing as MINT); contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound, virtually pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - unread,apart from my own collation.UK,small 8vo wraps,Uncorrected Proof copy,Export p/back 1st edn,4-276pp [paginated] includes Acts I- V comprising 27 chapters and acknowledgements to rear as the last page; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,blank dedication,and individual Act(s) separator pages. See also my book IDs' rja379410 and rja379510 for UK,HB+dw/dj,1st edns of author's 2nd novel 'Ludmila's Broken English'. Winner of the 2003 Man Booker Prize,this is DBC Pierre's debut novel. 'Vernon God Little',makes few apologies in its darkly comedic portrait of the quirky backwater of Martirio,barbecue capital of Texas,a town reeling in the aftermath of a horrific,recent massacre in his high school of a shooting.Fifteen-year-old Vernon Little narrates the first-person story with a cynical twang and a four-letter barb for each of his diet-obsessed townsfolk.His mother,endlessly awaiting the delivery of a new refrigerator, seems to exist only to twist an emotional knife in his back; her friend,Palmyra,structures her life around the next meal at the Bar-B-Chew Barn; officer Vaine Gurie has Vernon convicted of the crime before she's begun the investigation; along with wannabe CNN hacks - all keen to lay the blame at Vernon's expense.As the net tightens and the desire for a scapegoat reaches fever pitch,Vernon decides to leave town; reporter Eulalio Ledesma hovers between a comforting father-figure and a sadistic Bond villain; and Jesus,his best friend in the world, is dead - a victim of the killings. As his life explodes before him,Vernon flees his home in pursuit of a tropical fantasy: a cabin on a beach in Mexico he once saw in the movie Against All Odds. With the LSD diluted in the ginseng and essential travel funds procured from a distasteful trade-oof with old Mr Deutschman,he succumbs to the workings of Fate and takes off for Mexico and a date - or so he hopes - with the divine Taylor Figueroa. But the police - and TV crews - are in hot pursuit. Peopled by a cast of freaks,obese law enforcement officers,cold-blooded chattering housewives,and one very special adolescent with an unfortunate talent for being in the wrong place at the right time, 'VERNON GOD LITTLE' is a riotous advebnture story which cuts a satirical swathe through the heart of contemporary America. Please contact seller,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas customers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch, especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** This item offered P+p FREE.Offer available UK only,unless indicated otherwise. ** ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always.

UK,small 8vo p/back,Uncorrected Proof copy,1st edn.
Not SIGNED.

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