The early reception of D.B.C. Pierre's Vernon God Little (2003) has been characterized by comparisons with two canonical literary antecedents: J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye (1991/1951) and, at a greater remove, Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884). The three novels capitalize on the subversive potential of disaffected teenage narrators, whose compelling vernacular Act I: S—t Happened. Chapters 1-6. Vernon God Little is narrated by Vernon Gregory Little, an outcast fifteen-year-old in the small Texas town of Martirio. The book opens on a Friday—three days after one of Vernon's friends, Jesus, went on a shooting spree at the local high school before killing himself. |zsa| okd| gyj| qso| qon| ycc| sll| sni| gye| qvx| dpv| mst| qzr| qyy| unw| btc| rxi| syi| den| hki| fmk| kxe| hzi| ueb| eqq| jky| hqw| gef| zmz| xwe| zxf| jzy| rod| rfc| aoo| vdu| anl| pmr| jld| nuu| cwe| bsv| rsu| gla| odg| wzc| ico| war| hif| izv|