02115cam a2200325 a 45000010005000000030006000050050017000110080041000280100017000690200022000860200018001080350023001260400023001490430012001720500027001840820016002111000021002272450090002482600038003383000023003765201183003995610008015826500035015906500030016256500027016556500024016826510020017066550036017266550027017622888FISKH20240123093920.0030404s2003    enk           000 1 eng    a  2003430704  a0571216420 (pbk.)  a9780571216420  a(UkLWHE)e000600598  aDLCbengcDLCdDLC  an-us-tx00aPR9619.4.P54bV47 200300a823/.922221 aPierre, D. B. C.10aVernon God Little :ba 21st century comedy in the presence of death /cD.B.C. Pierre.  aLondon :bFaber and Faber,c2003.  a279 pages ;c24 cm  aIn the town jail of Martirio the barbecue sauce capital of Central Texas  sits fifteen-year-old Vernon Little, dressed only in New Jack trainers and underpants. He is in trouble. His friend Jesus has just blown away sixteen of his classmates before turning the gun on himself. And Vernon, as his only buddy, has become the focus of the towns need for vengeance. The news of the tragedy has resulted in the quirky backwater being flooded with wannabe CNN hacks all-too-keen to claim their fifteen minutes and lay the blame for the killings at Vernon feet. In particular Eulalio Ledesma, who begins manipulating matters so that Vernon becomes the center for the bizarre and vengeful impulses of the townspeople of Martirio. But Vernon is sure he'll be ok. Why do movies end happy? Because they imitate life. You know it, I know it. Peopled by a cast of grotesques, freaks, coldblooded chattering housewives (who are all mysteriously, recently widowed), and one very special adolescent with an unfortunate talent for being in the wrong place at the right time, Vernon God Little is riotously funny and puts lust for vengeance, materialism, and trial by media squarely in the dock.   5DLC 0aHigh school studentsvFiction. 0aSchool violencevFiction. 0aTeenage boysvFiction. 0aMassacresvFiction. 0aTexasvFiction. 7aBlack humor (Literature)2gsafd 7aBildungsromans.2gsafd