LOVE FOR LIVRES

Virginie Despentes

Born in 1969 in Nancy, Virginie Despentes is a French author and director. Her first novel Baise-moi, published in 1994, was a great success. She is the author of a dozen novels, short stories and essays. Her best-known work is the Vernon Subutex trilogy, published between 2015 and 2017. She has won numerous literary awards, including the Renaudaut Prize in 2010 for Apocalypse Bébé and the Anaïs-Nin Prize in 2015 for Vernon Subutex, volume 1. She was a member of the Goncourt Academy between 2016 and 2020.

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7/10

Apocalypse baby

Virginie Despentes - Publisher : Éditions Grasset & Fasquelle

Publisher`s presentation : Valentine disappeared... Who is really looking for her?
Between social satire, contemporary thriller and lesbian romance, Virginie Despentes` new novel is a road-book that takes the reader between Paris and Barcelona, on the tracks of all those who knew Valentine, the lost teenager... The different characters cross paths without necessarily meeting each other,...
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During a travel	Spring	To my friends	Easy to read	Contemporary	Between 10 and 20$
A few days

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6/10

Bye bye Blondie

Virginie Despentes - Publisher : Éditions Grasset & Fasquelle

Gloria is convinced that every time she gets too close to the edge, she will be able to do a back flip. But the more time passes, the more she becomes a champion in the art of suffering... It`s raining in Nancy, her hometown, and Gloria, at thirty-five years old, is once again homeless, with Le Royal, her bar, as her only stop, the only place where she can freely drag her depression and her...
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