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Translated from the French by Frank Wynne

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Virginie Despentes is Frances foremost French

VIRGINIE DESPENTES feminist writer and commentator.

Winner of the Prix Anas Nin (2015), the Prix
Landerneau (2015), the Prix La Coupole (2015) and
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and commentator.
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spread throughout Paris. But by the 2000s, with the arrival of the internet and the decline
in CDs and vinyl, his shop is struggling. When it closes, Subutex is out on a limb, with no idea
what to do next. Nothing sticks. Before long, his savings are gone, his employment benefit is cut,
WHO IS VERNON SUBUTEX?
and when the friend who had been covering his rent dies suddenly, Vernon Subutex finds himself
first relying on friends with spare sofas, and finally, when that dries up, alone and out on the
Paris streets.
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Virginie Despentes is a writer and filmmaker, and former maid,
sex worker, and freelance rock journalist. Her first novel, Baise-
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first film to be banned in France for twenty-eight years. She is
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autobiographical essay, King Kong Theory (2006).
for twenty-eight years. She is the author of over fifteen further works, including Apocalypse Baby
(2010) and Bye Bye Blondie (2004), and the autobiographical essay, King Kong Theory (2006).
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