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

Author: D.B.C. Pierre

Narrator: William Rycroft

Unabridged: 11 hr 14 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 07/29/2011

Categories: Fiction


Synopsis

Man Booker Prize recipient DBC Pierre won effusive praise for his debut novel Vernon God Little. His second novel, Lights Out in Wonderland fulfills the promise of his first with a tale of 21st-century disaffection. Caught up in his decadent lifestyle, 20-something Gabriel Brockwell decides to kill himself. But before he does, he embarks on a quest for Wonderland-a bacchanal to end all bacchanals. His journey takes him around the globe, from London to Tokyo to Berlin, to taste all of life's wildest pleasures, only to emerge with a renewed spirit and a desire to make up for some of the terrible things he's done in his life.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Blair on November 20, 2014

This was BRILLIANT. I'd be happy to be proved wrong, but I am prepared to say now that it's my book of 2010 - I can't imagine that I'm going to come across anything as unique, inspiring and downright excellent in the next few months. The story begins with Gabriel Brockwell - dreamer, quasi-misanthrop......more

Goodreads review by Baba on May 06, 2020

Pierre uses this manic allegorical novel to look at the excesses of capitalism and one of its leading acts of decadence… fine dining! Twenty something Gabriel's ideologies take a big hit when his anti-capitalism activism actually starts making money; this is the final straw for him and he sets out t......more