Lights Out in Wonderland: A Novel - Hardcover

Pierre, DBC

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0393081230 ISBN 13: 9780393081237

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 2011

Synopsis

"Lights Out in Wonderland has all the verbal wit and energy of Vernon God Little."―Financial Times

Gabriel Brockwell―aesthete, philosopher, disaffected twenty-something decadent―is thinking terminal. He's decided to kill himself―but not immediately. His destination is Wonderland. The style of the journey is all that's to be decided.

Traveling between London, Tokyo, and Berlin, Gabriel is in search of the bacchanal to obliterate all previous parties. His adventure takes in a spell in rehab, a near-death experience eating a poisonous Japanese delicacy, and finally an orgiastic feast in the bowels of Berlin's majestic Tempelhof Airport. Along the way, Gabriel falls apart, only to reemerge with a new outlook on the world and a mission to right his past wrongs.

Lights Out in Wonderland is an allegorical banquet, a sly commentary on these End Times and the march toward banality, and a joyful expression of the human spirit.

About this title

About the Author:

DBC Pierre’s first novel, Vernon God Little, won the Man Booker Prize. His other novels include Ludmila's Broken English and Lights Out in Wonderland. He lives in County Leitrim, Ireland.

Review:

“If any novelist can collate the killing irony of what is happening around us it is DBC Pierre.”
- The Guardian

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0393081230
• ISBN 13: 9780393081237
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 350