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Vernon Subutex Series

This trilogy offers a raw, unflinching portrait of contemporary French society through the lives of its marginalized characters. It chronicles the journey of a man whose rise and fall mirrors broader societal and cultural shifts. The narrative delves into the worlds of music, drugs, the underground, and the digital age, where past struggles constantly collide with present realities. It's a sharp commentary on identity, the search for meaning, and survival in a chaotic world.

Vernon Subutex Three
Vernon Subutex Two
Vernon Subutex 1

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    Vernon Subutex 1

    • 352 pages
    • 13 hours of reading
    3.9(11418)Add rating

    **SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL 2018** WHO IS VERNON SUBUTEX? An urban legend. A fall from grace. The mirror who reflects us all. Vernon Subutex was once the proprietor of Revolver, an infamous music shop in Bastille. His legend spread throughout Paris. But by the 2000s his shop is struggling. With his savings gone, his unemployment benefit cut, and the friend who had been covering his rent suddenly dead, Vernon Subutex finds himself down and out on the Paris streets. He has one final card up his sleeve. Even as he holds out his hand to beg for the first time, a throwaway comment he once made on Facebook is taking the internet by storm. Vernon does not realise this, but the word is out: Vernon Subutex has in his possession the last filmed recordings of Alex Bleach, the famous musician and Vernon's benefactor, who has only just died of a drug overdose. A crowd of people from record producers to online trolls and porn stars are now on Vernon's trail. Translated from the French by Frank Wynne "Thrilling, magnificently audacious" Irish Times "Brimming with sex, violence and deviant behaviour" Sunday Times "Virginie Despentes's Vernon Subutex trilogy is the zeitgeistiest thing I ever read" NELL ZINK

    Vernon Subutex 1
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    Vernon Subutex Two

    4.0(338)Add rating

    "Vernon Subutex is still on the streets. Hanging around with alcohol-soaked Charles in the Parc de Buttes Chaumont, feverish and hallucinating, he is completely cut off from the wider world and unaware that he is the subject of a frantic search by a crowd of hunters hot on the trail of the last recordings of the famous dead musician, Alex Bleach. But just imagine that one of these hunters finally gets hold of the precious tapes. What might they contain? The answer could have shocking - almost apocalyptic - consequences."--Publisher's description

    Vernon Subutex Two
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