{"product_id":"dear-dickhead-a-novel","title":"Dear Dickhead, Virginie Despentes","description":"\u003cp\u003eA New Yorker best book of 2024 | A Financial Times Best Translated Book of 2024\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLibrary Science September book club pick | A Vulture most anticipated book\u003cbr\u003eOne of The New York Times’ 24 works of fiction to read of fall 2024 | A Guardian best translated fiction pick | A Town \u0026amp; Country must-read fall book\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“It’s a thrill to hear the characters develop on the page . . . One of the better portrayals of addiction I’ve encountered in literature, up there with books by Jean Rhys and Leslie Jamison.” ―Joumana Khatib, The New York Times Book Review\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Engrossing . . . Full of emotional suspense.” ―Pamela Druckerman, Financial Times\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe French novel taking the world by storm: an ultracontemporary Dangerous Liaisons about sex, feminism, and addiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDear Dickhead,\u003cbr\u003eI read your post on Insta. You’re like a pigeon shitting on my shoulder as you flap past. It’s shitty and unpleasant. Waah, waah, waah, I’m a pissy little pantywaist, no one loves me so I whimper like a Chihuahua in the hope someone will notice me. Congratulations: you’ve got your fifteen minutes of fame! You want proof? I’m writing to you.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOscar is a B-list novelist in his forties. He used to be an alcoholic and a cokehead, but now he keeps himself busy by ranting on social media. When Rebecca, an actress whose looks he insulted, sends him an angry email, they strike up a combative correspondence―at the very moment that Oscar is accused of sexual harassment by his former publicist. What ensues is a no-holds-barred conversation about life under the patriarchy, and above all about addiction―to drugs, to alcohol, to the internet, to rage.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVirginie Despentes, the celebrated author of King Kong Theory, has written her breakthrough book: a Dangerous Liaisons for our time. We follow Rebecca and Oscar as they develop an unlikely friendship and argue over questions of right and wrong in a city―Paris―where pleasure, excess, and freedom rule the day, or used to. Dear Dickhead is a guns-blazing novel about a culture that makes men and women sick, and about how the search for feeling leaves us addicted to what makes us feel. The result is a provocative and unmissable book from the author hailed by The Guardian as France’s “rock and roll Zola.”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"gentle books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48769686012041,"sku":"9781250397669","price":50.0,"currency_code":"HKD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0598\/9289\/1785\/files\/9781250397669.jpg?v=1792900829","url":"https:\/\/thisisgentle.com\/products\/dear-dickhead-a-novel","provider":"gentle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}