Posted on 06/12/03
Getting down, and dirty
Vernon God Little: A 21st Century Comedy in the Presence of Death By DBC Pierre When I heard that an Australian of British parentage had won this year's Man Booker Prize for a first novel set in the small town of Martirio, Texas, I wondered if the judges had fallen for an orgy of anti-Americanism. Vernon God-Awful was my knee-jerk guess. When I next learned that its author DBC ("Dirty But Clean") Pierre -- Peter Finlay, actually -- had a checkered past, replete with fraud and a gambling addiction, I thought, "Oh, that book, I'll pass on it." But how does one pass on a Booker Prize winner? It turns out that Finlay lived his first 23 years in Mexico, and is familiar with the terrain.
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