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The spectacular third novel from Booker Prize
winner, DBC Pierre: a dazzling odyssey and a universal commentary on
our times.
Gabriel Brockwell, aesthete, poet, philosopher, disaffected
twenty-something decadent, is thinking terminal. His philosophical
enquiries, the abstractions he indulges, and how these relate to a life
lived, all point in the same direction. His destination is Wonderland.
The nature and style of the journey is all that's to be decided.
Taking in London, Tokyo and Berlin,
Lights Out In Wonderland
documents Gabriel Brockwell's remarkable global odyssey. Committed to
the pursuit of pleasure and in search of the Bacchanal to obliterate
all previous parties, Gabriel's adventure takes in a spell in rehab, a
near-death experience with fugu ovaries, a sexual encounter with an
octopus, and finally an orgiastic feast in the bowels of Berlin's
majestic Tempelhof Airport. Along the way we see a character
disintegrate and re-shape before our eyes.
Lights Out In Wonderland carries you through its many
corridors of delight and horror on the back of Gabriel's voice, which
is at once skeptical, idealistic, broken and optimistic. An allegorical
banquet and a sly commentary on these End Times and the march towards
insensate banality, DBC Pierre's third novel completes a loose trilogy
of fictions, each of which stands alone as a joyful expression of the
human spirit.
About The Author
DBC Pierre was born in Reynella, South Australia. He was raised in
Mexico between the ages of seven and twenty-three, although he has also
travelled extensively. DBC Pierre has worked as a designer and
cartoonist, and currently lives in County Leitrim, Ireland.
Vernon
God Little, his first novel, won the 2003 Bollinger Everyman
Woodhouse Award, the Whitbread Prize for Best First Novel, and the 2003
Man Booker Prize. He is the author of
Ludmila's Broken English
(2006) and the forthcoming novel
Lights Out in Wonderland
(Sept 2010).
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