Dear Dickhead

Resumen del libro

"The book of the moment" Sunday Times"Highly entertaining . . .

subtle and complex" Guardian"Despentes at her very best" New European"Brilliant - funny, wise and completely addictive" VICTORIA HISLOP"Full of energy and blistering rationality" LISA McINERNEYDear Dickhead,I read the piece you posted on Insta. You're like a pigeon shitting on my shoulder as you flap past. It's shitty and unpleasant.

Congratulations: you've had your fifteen minutes of fame! You want proof? Here I am writing to you. Rebecca Latté is a famous actress in her fifties, perhaps past the peak of her career. Oscar Jayack is a middle-aged, moderately successful author who, in the wake of the MeToo movement, has been accused of sexual harassment by his former publicist-turned-feminist blogger Zoé Katana.

When Oscar insults Rebecca's appearance on Instagram, she sends a scorching reply and the pair fall into a spiral of mutual antipathy. In back-and-forth emails, they vie for the last word, finding common ground in their experiences of addiction, assessing the changing world around them as Covid locks down Paris, and reluctantly beginning to lean on one another. A novel of rage, irreverence and vulnerability, exploring ageing, gender, privilege, addiction and consent, Dear Dickhead is an excoriating encapsulation of our times and of the broken human beings trying to make sense of it.

Translated from the French by Frank Wynne

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;P x{0026}lt;B Virginie Despentesx{0026}lt;/B (Nancy, Francia, 1969) es novelista y directora de cine. Transgresora y provocadora, su mirada punzante sobre nuestra sociedad nunca está exenta de un toque de ironía. A los diecisiete años dejó el instituto y se marchó a vivir a Lyon, donde encontró empleo en una tienda de discos, colaboró en revistas musicales, cantó en un grupo de rap y trabajó de prostituta. La popularidad le llegó con su primera novela, x{0026}lt;I Fóllamex{0026}lt;/I , que fue llevada a la gran pantalla y censurado a su salida. Desde entonces ha publicado x{0026}lt;I Perras sabiasx{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I Lo bueno de verdadx{0026}lt;/I (galardonada con el Prix de Flore y llevada al cine por Gilles Paquet-Brenner), x{0026}lt;I Teen Spiritx{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I Bye-Bye Blondiex{0026}lt;/I y x{0026}lt;I Apocalypse bébéx{0026}lt;/I (galardonada con el prestigioso Prix Renaudot). Despentes es la autora del celebrado ensayo x{0026}lt;I Teoría King Kongx{0026}lt;/I , donde se postula como una de las defensoras del posfeminismo. Su última obra publicada hasta la fecha es la trilogía x{0026}lt;I Vernon Subutexx{0026}lt;/I , con la que Despentes se reafirma como una voz imprescindible de las letras francesas.x{0026}lt;/P