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Description for Vernon God Little
Paperback. An updated edition of Tanya Ronder's darkly riotous, superbly fast-talking adventure, adapted from the Booker Prize-winning novel by DBC Pierre. Num Pages: 101 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 131 x 11. Weight in Grams: 128.
A darkly riotous, superbly fast-talking adventure, adapted from the Booker Prize-winning novel.
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, who is arrested at the start of the story.
Tanya Ronder's stage adaptation of DBC Pierre's Booker Prizewinning novel Vernon God Little was first performed at the Young Vic, London, in 2007, when it was nominated for the Olivier Award for Best New Play. Rufus Norris's production ... Read more
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Publisher
Nick Hern Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
101
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781848421738
SKU
V9781848421738
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Ref
99-5
About Dbc Pierre
Tanya Ronder is a celebrated playwright who trained at RADA and spent fourteen years working as an actress before turning to writing. Her 2007 adaptation of DBC Pierre's Booker Prize-winning novel, Vernon God Little, was nominated for an Olivier Award for Best New Play as well as a What's On Stage Award for Best New Comedy and was revived by ... Read more
Reviews for Vernon God Little
'Tanya Ronder's clever, fluent, and highly enjoyable theatrical adaptation'
Independent
'Exuberant, inventive, edgy, excitable, original'
Mail on Sunday
Independent
'Exuberant, inventive, edgy, excitable, original'
Mail on Sunday