The French novel taking the world by storm: an ultracontemporary Dangerous Liaisons about sex, feminism, and addiction.
Dear Dickhead,
I read your post on Insta. Youâre like a pigeon shitting on my shoulder as you flap past. Itâs shitty and unpleasant. Waah, waah, waah, Iâm a pissy little pantywaist, no one loves me so I whimper like a Chihuahua in the hope someone will notice me. Congratulations: youâve got your fifteen minutes of fame! You want proof? Iâm writing to you.
Oscar is a B-list novelist in his forties. He used to be an alcoholic and a cokehead, but now he keeps himself busy by ranting on social media. When Rebecca, an actress whose looks he insulted, sends him an angry email, they strike up a combative correspondenceâat the very moment that Oscar is accused of sexual harassment by his former publicist. What ensues is a no-holds-barred conversation about life under the patriarchy, and above all about addictionâto drugs, to alcohol, to the internet, to rage.
Virginie Despentes, the celebrated author of King Kong Theory, has written her breakthrough book: a Dangerous Liaisons for our time. We follow Rebecca and Oscar as they develop an unlikely friendship and argue over questions of right and wrong in a cityâParisâwhere pleasure, excess, and freedom rule the day, or used to. Dear Dickhead is a guns-blazing novel about a culture that makes men and women sick, and about how the search for feeling leaves us addicted to what makes us feel. The result is a provocative and unmissable book from the author hailed by The Guardian as Franceâs ârock and roll Zola.â
Categories:
- Literature & Fiction
- Genre Fiction
- Epistolary
- Genre Fiction
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Author : Despentes, Virginie
Language : English
Published :2024-09-10
Number Of Pages : 304
Binding : hardcover
ISBN-10 : 0374611610
ISBN-13 : 9780374611613
Item weight : 1 lb
Dimensions : 1 in x 5.38 in x 8.25 in
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