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'If you are familiar with the explosive End Times Trilogy (Vernon God Little, Ludmila's Broken English, Lights Out in Wonderland) by DBC Pierre, you will be well-acclimatised to the heady heights traversed in this collection. Drawing on memoir and a life lived in pursuit of sensation, but always ignited by the flame of fiction, Petit Mal takes us further into the imagination of one of the most radically original prose stylists of the past decade.
'Accompanied by dozens of full-colour illustrations and photographic 'evidence', the stories here inhabit worlds defined by appetite, excess and transcendence. Whether through food, drink, sex, drugs, or a fantastic cocktail of all four, the impulse in this book is towards epiphany. And the inevitable hangover that follows. But even that (or those) in the world of DBC Pierre can be nourishing.
This special edition is cased and comes with an exclusive print signed by the author.' (Publisher's blurb)
Contents
- Cox, single work short story
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Petit Mal
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: The West Australian , 15-16 February 2014; (p. 21)
— Review of Petit Mal : Allegories of Youth, Wrongness and Right 2013 selected work autobiography short story -
[Untitled]
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 5 January 2014; (p. 13)
— Review of Petit Mal : Allegories of Youth, Wrongness and Right 2013 selected work autobiography short story -
Disparate Times for a Penitential Loner
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 30 November -1 December 2013; (p. 19)
— Review of Petit Mal : Allegories of Youth, Wrongness and Right 2013 selected work autobiography short story -
Quirky Collection of Exuberant Christmas Indulgence
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 23 November 2013; (p. 21)
— Review of Petit Mal : Allegories of Youth, Wrongness and Right 2013 selected work autobiography short story -
Closing the Door
2013
single work
column
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 23-24 November 2013; (p. 19) 'A decade after he won the Man Booker with his first novel, DBC Pierre believes literature is 'the last space where we can tell the truth', as he tells Helen Trinca.'
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Quirky Collection of Exuberant Christmas Indulgence
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 23 November 2013; (p. 21)
— Review of Petit Mal : Allegories of Youth, Wrongness and Right 2013 selected work autobiography short story -
Disparate Times for a Penitential Loner
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 30 November -1 December 2013; (p. 19)
— Review of Petit Mal : Allegories of Youth, Wrongness and Right 2013 selected work autobiography short story -
[Untitled]
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 5 January 2014; (p. 13)
— Review of Petit Mal : Allegories of Youth, Wrongness and Right 2013 selected work autobiography short story -
Petit Mal
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: The West Australian , 15-16 February 2014; (p. 21)
— Review of Petit Mal : Allegories of Youth, Wrongness and Right 2013 selected work autobiography short story -
Closing the Door
2013
single work
column
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 23-24 November 2013; (p. 19) 'A decade after he won the Man Booker with his first novel, DBC Pierre believes literature is 'the last space where we can tell the truth', as he tells Helen Trinca.'