VERNON GOD LITTLE: A 21ST CENTURY COMEDY IN THE PRESENCE OF DEATH.

Description:

Teenager Vernon Gregory Little's life has been changed by the Columbine-style slaughter of a group of students at his high school. Soon his home town is blanketed under a media siege, and Vernon finds himself blamed for the killing. Vernon finds himself drawn into a series of increasingly bizarre circumstances and decides to take off for Mexico and a date, with the delectable Taylor Figueros.

subjects: Man Booker Prize Winner,  School violence,  Teenage boys,  High school students,  Fiction,  Massacres,  award:man_booker_prize=2003,  Fiction, humorous,  Texas, fiction,  Fiction, coming of age,  British and irish drama (dramatic works by one author),  Drugs,  Fiction, humorous, general,  Large type books,  Drama,  School shootings,  Mass murder,  Teenage boys in fiction,  Massacres in fiction,  Influence,  Revenge,  Mass media in fiction,  Mass media,  Texas in fiction,  Revenge in fiction,  Drugs in fiction,  Materialism in fiction,  Materialism,  Drug abuse,  General,  Élèves du secondaire,  Romans, nouvelles,  Violence dans les écoles,  Garçons adolescents

Places: Texas