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King Kong Theory (Paperback)
Virginie Despentes; Translated by Frank Wynne
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‘I write from the realms of the ugly, for the ugly, the frigid,
the unfucked and the unfuckables, all those excluded from the great
meat market of female flesh, and for all those guys who don’t
want to be protectors, for those who would like to be but don’t
know how, for those who are not ambitious, competitive, or
well-endowed. Because this ideal of the seductive white woman
constantly being waved under our noses – well, I’m pretty sure
it doesn’t exist.’   Powerful, provocative and
personal, King Kong Theory is a candid account of how the author of
Baise-moi came to be Virginie Despentes. Drawing from personal
experience, Despentes shatters received ideas about rape and
prostitution, and explodes common attitudes towards sex and gender.
King Kong Theory is a manifesto for a new punk feminism, reissued
here in a brilliant new translation by Frank Wynne.
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An Apartment on Uranus (Paperback)
Paul B Preciado; Introduction by Virginie Despentes; Translated by Charlotte Mandell
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Uranus is the coldest planet in the solar system, a frozen giant
named after a Greek deity. It is also the inspiration for Uranism,
a concept coined by the writer Karl Heinrich Ulrichs in 1864 to
define the 'third sex' and the rights of those who 'love
differently'. Following in Ulrichs's footsteps, Paul B. Preciado
dreams of an apartment on Uranus where he can live, free of the
modern power taxonomies of race, gender, class or disability. In
this bold and transgressive book, Preciado recounts his
transformation from Beatriz into Paul B., and examines other
processes of political, cultural and sexual transition, reflecting
on socio-political issues including the rise of neo-fascism in
Europe, the criminalization of migrants, the harassment of trans
children, the technological appropriation of the uterus, and the
role artists and museums might play in the writing of a new social
contract. A stepchild of Michel Foucault and Judith Butler,
Preciado argues, with courage and conviction, for a planetary
revolution of all living beings against the norm.
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Vernon Subutex 1 (Paperback)
Virginie Despentes; Translated by Frank Wynne
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Baise-Moi (Rape Me) (Paperback)
Virginie Despentes; Translated by Bruce Benderson
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"Baise-Moi" is one of the most controversial French novels of
recent years, a punk fantasy that takes female rage to its outer
limits. Now the basis for a hit underground film which was banned
in France, " Baise-Moi" is a searing story of two women on a
rampage that is part Thelma and Louise, part Viking conquest. Manu
and Nadine have had all they can take. Manu has been brutally
raped, and determines it's not worth leaving anything precious
lying vulnerable -- including her very self. She teams up with
Nadine, a nihilist who watches pornography incessantly, and they
enact their own version of les vols et les viols (rape and pillage)
-- they lure men sexually, use them up, then rob and kill them.
Drawing from the spiky cadences of the Sex Pistols and the
murderous eroticism of Georges Bataille or Dennis Cooper,
"Baise-Moi" is a shocking, accomplished, and truly unforgettable
novel.
**SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL 2018** WHO IS VERNON
SUBUTEX? An urban legend. A fall from grace. The mirror who
reflects us all. Vernon Subutex was once the proprietor of
Revolver, an infamous music shop in Bastille. His legend spread
throughout Paris. But by the 2000s his shop is struggling. With his
savings gone, his unemployment benefit cut, and the friend who had
been covering his rent suddenly dead, Vernon Subutex finds himself
down and out on the Paris streets. He has one final card up his
sleeve. Even as he holds out his hand to beg for the first time, a
throwaway comment he once made on Facebook is taking the internet
by storm. Vernon does not realise this, but the word is out: Vernon
Subutex has in his possession the last filmed recordings of Alex
Bleach, the famous musician and Vernon's benefactor, who has only
just died of a drug overdose. A crowd of people from record
producers to online trolls and porn stars are now on Vernon's
trail. Translated from the French by Frank Wynne "Thrilling,
magnificently audacious" Irish Times "Brimming with sex, violence
and deviant behaviour" Sunday Times "Virginie Despentes's Vernon
Subutex trilogy is the zeitgeistiest thing I ever read" NELL ZINK
A "dissident of the gender-sex binary system" reflects on gender
transitioning and political and cultural transitions in
technoscientific capitalism.Uranus, the frozen giant, is the
coldest planet in the solar system as well as a deity in Greek
mythology. It is also the inspiration for uranism, a concept coined
by the writer Karl Heinrich Ulrich in 1864 to define the "third
sex" and the rights of those who "love differently." Following
Ulrich, Paul B. Preciado dreams of an apartment on Uranus where he
might live beyond existing power, gender and racial strictures
invented by modernity. "My trans condition is a new form of
uranism," he writes. "I am not a man. I am not a woman. I am not
heterosexual. I am not homosexual. I am not bisexual. I am a
dissident of the gender-sex binary system. I am the multiplicity of
the cosmos trapped in a binary political and epistemological
system, shouting in front of you. I am a uranist confined inside
the limits of technoscientific capitalism." This book recounts
Preciado's transformation from Beatriz into Paul B., but it is not
only an account of gender transitioning. Preciado also considers
political, cultural, and sexual transition, reflecting on issues
that range from the rise of neo-fascism in Europe to the
technological appropriation of the uterus, from the harassment of
trans children to the role museums might play in the cultural
revolution to come. An Apartment on Uranus is a bold,
transgressive, and necessary book.
**Sunday Times Best Books of 2018** "Funny, irreverent and
scathing" Guardian "Virginie Despentes is a true original, a punk
rock George Eliot" ALEXANDRA KLEEMAN, author of You Too Could Have
a Body Like Mine Rock star Alexandre Bleach might be dead, but he
has a secret. It's a secret that concerns several people, but the
only person who can unlock it is Vernon Subutex, former record shop
proprietor turned homeless messiah and guru, last seen
hallucinating and feverish on a bench in the parc des Buttes
Chaumont. Aicha wants to know the truth behind the death of her
mother, Vodka Satana. And if she finds the bastards responsible,
she wants to make them pay, whatever Celeste thinks of her plan.
Celeste wants Aicha to get a grip and stop hanging around with
Subutex's gang of disciples. The Hyena wants to find the Bleach
tapes. She wants to untangle her complicated feelings about Anais,
her boss' assistant. And speaking of her boss, she does not want
Laurent Dopalet to discover how badly she has double-crossed him.
Laurent Dopalet wants the Hyena to find and destroy the Bleach
tapes. He wants to forget he ever knew Vodka Satana. He wants
people to stop graffitiing his apartment with ludicrous
allegations. Above all, he wants people to understand: NONE OF THIS
IS HIS FAULT. THE SEQUEL TO VERNON SUBUTEX 1, SHORTLISTED FOR THE
MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2018. Translated from the French by
Frank Wynne
"A literary phenomenon" The Times "Despentes' writing is
intelligent, outspoken, witty, shocking, propulsive and streetwise"
Times Literary Supplement THE FINAL VOLUME IN THE EPIC ROCK AND
ROLL TRILOGY BY CULT AUTHOR VIRGINIE DESPENTES Although it means
leaving behind the community of disciples who have followed him on
his travels and assembled at his raves and gatherings, Vernon
Subutex is compelled to return to Paris to visit the dentist. Once
back in the city, he learns that Charles, his old friend from his
days on the Paris streets, has died and left him half of a lottery
win. But when Vernon returns to his disciples with news of this
windfall, it does not take long before his followers start to turn
on each other, and his good fortune provokes ruptures in his once
harmonious community. Meanwhile, storm clouds are gathering for
Aicha and Celeste: Laurent Dopalet is determined to make them pay
for their attack on him, whatever it takes and whoever gets hurt.
And before long, the whole of Paris will be reeling in the wake of
the terrorist atrocities of 2015 and 2016, and all the characters
in this kaleidoscopic portrait of a city will be forced to a
reckoning with each other. Translated from the French by Frank
Wynne
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King Kong Theory (Paperback)
Virginie Despentes; Translated by Frank Wynne
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