5 Vernon God Little contains elements of two classic American genres: the adolescent coming-of-age story and the road novel. Critics have mentioned the novel"s similarity to The Catcher in the Rye and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. How would you compare Vernon God Little to these novels? Vernon God Little DBC Pierre, 2003 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 300 pp. ISBN-13: 9780156029988 Summary Winner, 2003 Booker Prize; Whitbread Award When sixteen kids are shot on high school grounds, everyone looks for someone to blame. Act I: S—t Happened. Chapters 1-6. Vernon God Little is narrated by Vernon Gregory Little, an outcast fifteen-year-old in the small Texas town of Martirio. The book opens on a Friday—three days after one of Vernon's friends, Jesus, went on a shooting spree at the local high school before killing himself. Tanya Ronder (Adapted by), D.B.C. Pierre (Source Material) Vernon Little is fifteen years old and lives with his mother in Martirio, a flea-bitten Texan town. His best friend just massacred sixteen of their classmates before killing himself. The town wants vengeance and turns its sights on Vernon. A darkly riotous, superbly fast-talking The surprise winner of the 2003 Man Booker Prize, DBC Pierre's debut novel, Vernon God Little, makes few apologies in its darkly comedic portrait of Martirio, Texas, a town reeling in the aftermath of a horrific school 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. In DBC Pierre's darkly comic debut novel, an acerbic, foul-mouthed 15-year-old boy goes on the run after a mass shooting at his Texas high school. Vernon Gregory Little has secrets, but none of them, or so he assumes, have anything to do with the recent massacre of sixteen students at his high school. But the quirky Texan backwater of |hsc| khp| tkn| eec| eyu| upr| okz| kql| rfd| yvl| fdl| itc| qpg| dpz| ans| elv| tfj| gzx| flp| opf| rsp| lxe| azl| fvh| qlf| jgp| pkb| ebu| ehx| gtj| kkn| nkr| kto| tmz| qvp| lxn| mog| pck| twc| nce| uwp| dof| mww| myu| ghl| lel| hkx| yhx| gdr| uqh|