Used book – Vernon Subutex (Volume 2), Virginie Despentes

We find Vernon, still homeless and in a bad way. The former record store owner is disconnected from the real world, without ambition or plans. He learns to live on the streets, alongside Charles, a clingy drunk. Vernon's old friends continue to hunt him down because he possesses the unreleased interview with rocker Alex Bleach, recorded shortly before his death...

A formidable sequel after a first volume praised by a unanimous press and multiple award winner.

A fighting book driven both by an undiminished capacity for indignation and breathtaking – and anything but amiable – empathy. Nathalie Crom, Télérama.

Virginie Despentes ruthlessly reveals our times, offering us a possible antidote. A true writer – free, unique, corrosive. Nelly Kaprièlian, Les Inrockuptibles.

One can turn Vernon Subutex in one's fingers like a precious stone changing color in the daylight. Marie-Laure Delorme, Le Journal du dimanche.