Lights Out in Wonderland - Softcover

D.B.C. Pierre

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571228917 ISBN 13: 9780571228911

Publisher: Faber & Faber, 2011

Synopsis

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. Along the way we see a character disintegrate and re-shape before our eyes. 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.

About this title

About the Author:

When not travelling far and wide DBC Pierre divides his time between England and a mountainside in Ireland. Vernon God Little, his debut novel, won the Man Booker Prize and the Whitbread First Novel Award, and was followed by Ludmila's Broken English and Lights Out in Wonderland. He is also the author of a collection of short fictions, Petit Mal, and a Hammer novella, Breakfast with the Borgias.

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: Faber & Faber
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0571228917
• ISBN 13: 9780571228911
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336