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Vernon Subutex Reeks

Deze trilogie biedt een rauw, meedogenloos portret van de hedendaagse Franse samenleving door de levens van haar gemarginaliseerde personages. Het Chronicleert de reis van een man wiens opkomst en val bredere maatschappelijke en culturele verschuivingen weerspiegelt. Het verhaal duikt in de werelden van muziek, drugs, de underground en het digitale tijdperk, waar vroegere strijd voortdurend botst met de huidige realiteit. Het is een scherp commentaar op identiteit, de zoektocht naar betekenis en overleven in een chaotische wereld.

Vernon Subutex Three
Vernon Subutex Two
Vernon Subutex 1

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  1. Vernon Subutex 1

    • 352bladzijden
    • 13 uur lezen

    **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 11
    3,9

  2. Vernon Subutex Two

    "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 Two2
    4,0

  3. Vernon Subutex Three

    • 368bladzijden
    • 13 uur lezen

    The final volume of Virginie Despentes' searing trilogy of urban life in a time of turmoil and uncertainty.

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    4,0