# [Vernon Subutex 1 A Novel](https://myles.garden/bookshelf/books/9780374283247)

- ISBN: 9780374283247
- Authors: Virginie Despentes and Frank Wynne
- Published Date: 11/5/2018
- Series: Vernon Subutex (Book 1)

## Description

> As if she were a manic, female counterpart to Michel Houellebecq, Virginie
Despentes's novels overflow with violence, second-wave feminism, and
restlessness to the point of mania. As she declared in her
memoir-cum-manifesto, King Kong Theory, "being Virginie Despentes is a more
interesting business than anything else going on out there." Her first novel,
Baise-moi, was turned into a film full of murderous women and rape; her last
novel, Apocalypse bébé (see WLT, Mar. 2011, 60), was shortlisted for the Prix
Goncourt and won the Prix Renaudot; and now she is in the middle of a trilogy.