Title:
Dear dickhead : a novel / Virginie Despentes ; translated from the French by Frank Wynne.
ISBN:
9780374611613
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Edition:
First American edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024.
Translation, ©2024
Original, ©2022
Physical Description:
292 pages ; 22 cm
General Note:
"Originally published in French in 2022 by Éditions Grasset & Fasquelle, France, as Cher Connard."
Summary:
"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 correspondence—at 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 addiction—to drugs, to alcohol, to the internet, to rage. Virginie Despentes, the celebrated author of King Kong Theory, has written her breakthrough 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 city—Paris—where 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." -- Publisher.
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OCLC Number:
on1417471184
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