D. B. C. Pierre: Lights Out in Wonderland

Lights Out in Wonderland


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This is the hilarious and outrageous tale of one man's fight against the decadent excess of the modern world, from the Booker Prize-winning author of Vernon God Little. Gabriel Brockwell, aesthete, poet, philosopher, disaffected twenty-something decadent, is looking to end it all with one last journey of excess. Taking in London, Tokyo, Berlin and the Galapagos Islands, Lights Out In Wonderland documents Gabriel Brockwell's remarkable global odyssey. Committed to the pursuit of pleasure 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. An allegorical banquet and a sly commentary on the march towards mindless banality, DBC Pierre's third novel is an unexpectedly joyful expression of the human spirit.

Each fascinating character and each cunning tactic demonstrates a fundamental truth about who we are, and the targets we've become - or hope to win over. The Art of Seduction is an indispensable primer on the Cinderella Stories Around the World: 4 Beloved Tales download ebook essence of one of history's greatest weapons and the ultimate power trip. The second edition of the book was produced under the sponsorship of the Linguistic Society of America and the (U.S.) National Museum of Language. Running late to the Hinkler gala performance of Gilbert and Sullivan's "Ruddigore," Phryne Fisher meets some thugs in a dark alley and handles them convincingly before they can ruin her silver dress. Phryne then finds that she has rescued a gorgeous Chinese, Lin Chung, and his grandmother, and is briefly mistaken for a deity.Denying divinity but accepting cognac, she later continues safely to the theatre. But it's an unexpected evening as her night is again interrupted by a most bizarre death onstage. What links can Phryne possibly find between the ridiculously entertaining plot of "Ruddigore," the Chinese community of Little Bourke St. or the actors treading the boards of His Majesty's Theatre? Drawn backstage and onstage, Phryne must solve an old murder and find a new murderer and, of course, banish the theatre's ghost, who seems likely to kill again.The glorious Phryne Fisher returns to the spotlight in her seventh adventure."


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Author: D. B. C. Pierre
Number of Pages: 336 pages
Published Date: 01 Sep 2011
Publisher: FABER & FABER
Publication Country: London, United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN: 9780571228911
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