Virginie Despentes
Virginie Despentes is a writer and filmmaker. She worked in an independent record store in the early ’90s, was a sex worker, and published her first novel, Baise Moi, when she was twenty-three. She adapted the novel for the screen in 2000, codirecting with the porn star Coralie Trinh Thi. Upon release, it became the first film to be banned in France in twenty-eight years. Despentes is the author of more than fifteen other works, including the Vernon Subutex Trilogy, Apocalypse Baby, Bye Bye Blondie, Pretty Things, and the essay collection King Kong Theory.
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Vernon Subutex 1
- By: Virginie Despentes
- Narrator: Christopher Harper
- Length: 10 hours 38 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: November 05, 2019
- Language: English
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From the provocative writer and filmmaker Virginie Despentes comes volume one of her acclaimed trilogy of novels, Vernon Subutex–short-listed for the Man Booker International Prize and the basis for the TV series of the same name. But who is... Read more
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