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Vernon Subutex 1 audiobook

  • By: Virginie Despentes
  • Narrator: Christopher Harper
  • Category: Fiction, Satire
  • Length: 10 hours 38 minutes
  • Publisher: Macmillan Audio
  • Publish date: November 05, 2019
  • Language: English
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Vernon Subutex 1 Audiobook Summary

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 Vernon Subutex?

Vernon Subutex was once the proprietor of Revolver, an infamous music shop in Paris, where his name was legend throughout Paris. By the 2000s, however, with the arrival of the internet and the decline in CD and vinyl sales, his shop is struggling, like so many others. When it closes, Subutex finds himself with nowhere to go and nothing to do. Before long, his savings are gone, and when the mysterious rock star who had been covering his rent suddenly drops dead of a drug overdose, Subutex finds himself launched on an epic saga of couch-surfing, boozing, and coke-snorting before finally winding up homeless. Just as he resigns himself to life as a panhandler, a throwaway comment he once made on Facebook takes the internet by storm.

The word is out: Subutex is lugging around a bunch of VHS tapes shot by that same dead rock musician–his last recordings on this earth. Soon a crowd of wild characters, from screen writers to social media groupies, from porn stars to failed musicians to random misfits, are hot on Vernon’s trail . . . but Vernon is none the wiser.

“Virginie Despentes’s Vernon Subutex trilogy is the zeitgeistiest thing I ever read. Everything about it is contemporary, right down to the fearless woman author who doesn’t think of herself as a feminist and gives an impression at least in interviews of habitually killing rapists.” –Nell Zink, Bustle, “The Best Books Of The 2010s”

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Vernon Subutex 1 Audiobook Narrator

Christopher Harper is the narrator of Vernon Subutex 1 audiobook that was written by 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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Virginie Despentes is the author of Vernon Subutex 1

Vernon Subutex 1 Full Details

Narrator Christopher Harper
Length 10 hours 38 minutes
Author Virginie Despentes
Category
Publisher Macmillan Audio
Release date November 05, 2019
ISBN 9781250243294

Subjects

The publisher of the Vernon Subutex 1 is Macmillan Audio. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is Fiction, Satire

Additional info

The publisher of the Vernon Subutex 1 is Macmillan Audio. The imprint is Macmillan Audio. It is supplied by Macmillan Audio. The ISBN-13 is 9781250243294.

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This book is only available in the United States.

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