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An Apartment on Uranus - Chronicles of the Crossing by By Paul B. Preciado; Foreword by Virginie Despentes; Translated by Charlotte Mandell
$30.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
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 concep ...Show more
King Kong Theory by Virginie Despentes
$24.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
With humor, rage, and confessional detail, Virginie Despentes--in her own words "more King Kong than Kate Moss"--delivers a highly charged account of women's lives today. She explodes common attitudes about sex and gender, and shows how modern beauty myths are ripe for rebelling against. Using her own e ...Show more
King Kong Theory by Virginie Despentes (tr from French Stephanie Benson)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
King Kong Theory is Despentes' candid account of how she became notorious: reviled and admired in equal measure for her rape-revenge novel turned film, Baise-Moi, she is the poster girl for modern female rebellion. Powerful, provocative and personal, King Kong Theory describes the ways her ideas have be ...Show more
Vernon Subutex 2 by Virginie Despentes
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
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 Chau ...Show more
Vernon Subutex One by Virginie Despentes
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: MacLehose Press Editions Ser.
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 str ...Show more
Vernon Subutex Three by Virginie Despentes
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
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 stree ...Show more
Vernon Subutex Three: The final book in the rock and roll cult trilogy by Virginie Despentes
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
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 stree ...Show more
Vernon Subutex Two by Virginie Despentes
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
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 Chau ...Show more
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